Choosing the Best Registry Cleaner

With so many registry cleaning utilities on the market, it isn’t easy to decide which the best for our needs is. Matters are complicated even further when you consider that there are many bogus software packages serving the purpose of spreading spyware rather than helping to clean a system!

We’re going to look at four of the more reputable tools; RegCure, RegSweep, Registry Fix and Registry Smart. You will find hundreds of other Registry utilities, but for good reason, these are the best on the market.

All four tools are free to download from their respective websites, but they share the same premise of requiring a paid registration to unlock the premium features. You can run a full scan of your system with the trial versions, but to fix the errors, you will need a legitimate serial key.

To rank the tools, we used a scan with each to analyse how well they fared in detecting errors. As you can see below, the results were remarkably different.

Registry Cleaners

RegCure returned the most errors with a whooping 898 problems reported. RegSweep, on the other hand, detected a mere 150. Between this, we have Registry Fix with 695 errors and Registry Smart with 443.

Given that the scans took place within the same 20 minute time frame, it is reasonable to assume that one of two things is happening. Either RegCure is locating errors that don’t exist, or RegSweep is missing them completely. Judging by the log files, we’re opting safely for the reliability of RegCure.

The primary concern for anybody looking to invest in a PC cleaning utility is that it does its job effectively. While RegSweep is efficient at removing the errors that it detects, it doesn’t find them all. The utility is a little too caught up in its promise of offering a complete scan within 2 minutes. That said, the fact that you can download updates from within the program makes it appealing to those who wish to stay protected from corruptions caused by developing technology.

Registry Fix and Registry Smart take up the middle ground as far as error detecting is concerned. We were impressed by the efficiency of Registry Smart which dealt with the large majority of the problems that it had raised.

The four utilities share the capability of being able to back-up and restore a registry from any given point in time. They also offer comprehensive management of the programs that should be launched on start-up. There is little to choose between the four in these departments and they all do their jobs effectively.

Registry Fix stands out for offering additional management of your Internet Explorer settings. Do you have third party add-ons scrambling for control of your toolbar? Registry Fix comes with a complete suite for handling the add-on modules in Internet Explorer, although you will have no such luck if you’re using Mozilla Firefox or any other third party browser.

In the presentation stakes, Registry Smart stands apart from the rest. It offers a clean interface with easy to understand instructions. The other tools are by no means complicated to work, but they aren’t quite as attractive on the eye. Registry Fix in particular, is a little overcooked with too many icons.

Generally speaking, we would recommend RegCure as the best solution in the Registry cleaning market. It might not look like your typical enterprise package, but it does an excellent job of sifting the bad entries from your Windows registry. And ultimately, that’s what we’re paying for.

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