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Registry Mechanic 2009 | 
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Category: Software
List Price: £29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 77
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.3
UPC: 811848014315
EAN: 0811848014315
ASIN: B001E5CFV2
Release Date: September 25, 2008
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 Aggressive but respected registry cleaner. Approach with care. November 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Windows Registry can only too easily become clogged up with unwanted, invalid and orphaned entries which, over time, can severely impact your system's boot time and performance. My own preferred and recommended approach to avoiding these problems is to use a number of freeware programs : CCleaner, a safe, conservative disk and registry cleaner; Revo Uninstaller, which uninstalls unwanted software far more thoroughly and reliably than the Add/Remove Programs tool in Windows XP; and WinPatrol, which amongst other useful functions will monitor the registry for changes, and notify you when these take place. All three of these programs are popular, easy-to-use and regularly updated.
For those who want to take an even more vigorous approach to registry cleaning, there are numerous programs on the market. Of these, Registry Mechanic is one of the longest established and most respected, having won many press awards and favourable reviews. It is far more aggressive and thorough than CCleaner, but it does offer the option of automatically setting a system restore point inside Windows XP, before you begin. It will optionally monitor your registry for changes, and notify you about them, and it will flag any errors it finds with an estimated level of severity, to assist you in deciding what action to take.
I've been offered a free copy of Registry Mechanic so I've installed it and used it, and I do appreciate its merits, but on the grounds of time consumption and sheer riskiness, it's unlikely to replace my longstanding maintenance regime. It's only too easy to make very serious mistakes with an aggressive registry cleaner, which can far outweigh any small benefits from more rigorous cleansing.
If you feel happier about paying for your PC maintenance tools, and you want the cleanest possible registry, and you're willing to take the time to use this program safely, and to review all its recommendations carefully and selectively, then Registry Mechanic is one of the better choices you could make. If on the other hand you want to save money, you're far more concerned about visible system performance results than in knowing you have a spotless registry, you want a quick and easy maintenance routine, and/or you're too risk-averse to contemplate using such an aggressive program, then you'd be better off going down the alternative route I outlined earlier. The choice is yours.
 No problems at all! November 19, 2008
Well what can I say? I had no problems installing this at all - no probs with registering it and no probs with having to give any account details.
I have it running on two machines at present - a laptop and a desktop - using the same key.
On my desktop it found over 800 problems - admittedly most of them low-priority - just lost threads etc but it cleared up all of these problems and all those on the laptop and both machines are working much better now.
So, unlike the other reviewers I'd have to say a thumbs up so far!
 Speeds up your system...... just as it claims. November 19, 2008
I've been a fan of registry mechanic for several years and this latest version doesn't disappoint. If you've noticed a drop in the speed of your pc then this program basically cleans out all the useless files which are clogging up the ability of your processor to work at its fastest speed. All registry setting are checked, ammended, deleted..... whatever is required and after the first run of this program the increase in the speed of the pc was visbly noticeable; programs loaded faster and webpages displayed almost instaniously. Should the program do anything to your system you don't like it automatically sets a system restore point which you can revert back to if needed. Another tip is to run a complete defrag of your system once Registry Mechanic has done its job..... which can also help speed up your pc. Run Regisrty Mechanic once a week from then on and your pc should be permanently upto its top speed all the time. A very useful and effective utility.
 A very good idea but too many flaws November 18, 2008
Those of you who are reading this are probably pretty computer savvy to even be considering purchasing such a product. In my opinion, that's probably just as well. These tools are designed to allow a 'novice' to effectively clean up their registry to rid it of those unnecessary entries. The registry being what it is though, is no place for a novice to be fiddling with. Being the heart of the computer, any incorrect changes will cause major upset to the computer, something a novice PC user doesn't want to face.
The product itself appears very easy to use and has many 'one touch' options such as the optimize feature. This is all well and good but it never tells you what it's actually done! Not telling you what it's done firstly makes you wonder if it has done anything at all but also, if something then goes wrong as a result, you have no way of knowing what it's deleted, at least not easily. As well as that what does it class as unnecessary or obsolete files?
If you do find as a result of any changes you make using software, you encounter problems, you are able to undo any changes made, again using a 'one touch' button. Having the option to do this makes you wonder why the software needs a 'get out of jail free card' option.
My advice here would be to steer clear, if you have problems in your registry it is more than likely you have problems elsewhere too, you will therefore need to have your computer looked at. The overall concept of the software is a good idea, but I think a little more development could have gone into it. For the price I would recommend looking elsewhere.
 a dangerous placebo November 17, 2008
For the most part, Registry Mechanic provides a one-stop front end for various Windows services, some of which are, quite frankly, best kept hidden from those who don't know how to use them properly. The option to hide Administrative Tools on the Start Menu was one of Microsoft's better decisions, and now Registry Mechanic makes it temptingly available...
Its main job is to scan the registry and clear out out-of-date entries such as shortcuts to files that no longer exist, or references to software that has not uninstalled cleanly. At least that's what I used the 2005 version for. Before installing the 2009 version I uninstalled the 2005 version. When I came to install the 2009 version it picked up on the installation information of the 2005 version (it had been registered in my partner's name) and would not let me change it. I had to use regedit to do that.
Looking at the list of errors RM2009 has been finding on my machine, I'm not actually that convinced of its usefulness: it might add an extra month or so to the life of a Windows installation (I reckon on doing a clean re-install every year or so to clear out the clutter), but I'm beginning to think that the main job that Registry Mechanic does is to act as a placebo, making the user think that everything's fine. If I were checking out a misbehaving PC, this isn't a tool I would bother using.
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