Q: What is the Best Registry Cleaner?

A:  I am not convinced that you need a Registry Cleaner in the first place, but if you do feel like you need one, I recommend the free one built into CCleaner.

I absolutely do NOT recommend you pay for one of the many products that bombard us with ads on every download site out there.  I have never seen a case where a "Registry Cleaner" software fixed a problem or sped up a computer. 

The registry has tens of thousands of entries in it, and most products I've seen identify a few hundred "problems".  These mostly consist of leftover entries from uninstalled software, but...if the software no longer exists, how much a problem can a few extra records in the registry be?

Other times I have seen products where you "fix" all the problems it finds, then run another scan and it finds another batch of problems.  WHAT?

I think Registry Cleaners are for the most part just a scare tactic.  If your registry is corrupt, you'll know it, because you'll be having problems getting your computer to boot at all. 

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