I installed ScanMyReg, and then ran a scan. It found 2,006 registry errors. However, the majority of these were false positives, which means that they were actually valid registry keys. If I had let ScanMyReg delete these valid registry keys, it may have caused serious problems. Because of this, today's giveaways is unsafe to use, and should most definitely be avoided.

The publisher states that by fixing the found errors "your system will run faster and error free." However, this is quite simply not true. At least 99.9% of the time, cleaning the registry will not make your computer run faster or fix and errors or other problems. So, aside for the issue I've already mentioned, would you really want to trust a registry cleaner, from a publisher that makes highly misleading claims about it?

If you want to clean the registry, I recommend Vit Regsitry Fix Pro. It is one of the few safe registry cleaners. Just about every other registry cleaner is unsafe to use. If you uncheck the Deep Scan option, then it will only ever find registry keys which are safe. Also, the trial version is fully functional and never expires.

However, there is no need to ever clean the registry. As I've already mentioned it extremly rare to gain any benefit from cleaning the registry. At least, if you use Vit Registry Fix, it won't cause any problems.

Roger  –  10 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+46)

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After scanning found 880 "errors", after checking a random sample (20 reg files) of the reported errors 90% of them were false positives, had I gone ahead and let it "fix" the errors the chances that my machine would have been trashed. There is absolutely no need to clean your registry, cleaning your registry has no impact on computer's performance, unless there is a corrupted reg file (unlikely). These programs are nothing more than snake oil and are more likely to cause more problems than they claim to fix. I only installed to have a quick look see after reading the comments posted. Dangerous if believe the reports this and other such programs give. They are only trying to make you think it is a "MUST HAVE" program. Didn't let it fix anything and uninstalled.

Lenny  –  10 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+45)

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I have yet to see where a registry cleaner of any kind makes a noticeable improvement of computer performance. Is the computer faster after cleaning the registry? No. Does the computer somehow work better after cleaning the registry? No. So what good is it? A registry cleaner may remove some excess garbage. But other than that, a program like this is simply not needed.

Jack  –  10 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+23)

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Such registry cleaners are not really required these days and really do have the potential to screw up your machine very effectively.

So if you are going to try such a thing then follow a belt and braces approach.

As a bare minimum make a system restore point and to be sure, create a full image too.

Whilst there may well be a number of unrequired registry entries, many of which will likely come from leftovers from program uninstallations, the chances that your machine will suddenly see a dramatic increase in performance are low.

This is one time when I would say if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

PhilS  –  10 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+22)

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I tend in general to be sceptical of registry cleaners - With most modern computers, I don't believe that you need to clean your registry ever. I see no evidence to accept that cleaning the registry either speeds up your computer, or prevents crashes. Some would also argue that there is more risk using registry cleaners that a valid registry entry can be deleted in error. At the very least if you are going to use a registry cleaner make sure to create a backup point to reverse changes if things go wrong!

Howard  –  10 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+19)

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