This continuing nonsense about "Advanced" and "PRO" and "Lite" really does irritate -- and especially when Unadvanced Not-Quite-PRO software hoves into view, like this from Elcor, a £19.95 retail offering that's a complete non-starter for anyone who values their wallet as well as their computer.

As has been pointed out here time and again, there is no *definitive* Registry Cleaner / Optimizer out there. What actually exists is a wagon-load of stuff coded in different ways according to the different tastes of different individual developers, as a result of which the scans of some will find a lot of "errors" but others, hardly any "errors" at all.

Safety, not scan results, is all that matters. Though there will always be the naive and the gullible who think the more "errors" flagged up by a cleaner, the more superior it must be, thankfully most users nowadays appreciate that more computers have probably been wrecked by registry "cleaning" than by almost any other software.

Today's offering, stripped as it is of the, er, "PRO" facility to make a full registry backup before "cleaning", may do all it claims. But there's no wealth of evidence to demonstrate that it does so safely: the preposterous $19.95 that someone who downloads today would have to pay tomorrow if they needed to re-install brings with it no comfort whatsoever.

By contrast, long, long, long established freeware such as Piriform's CCleaner does just that: its multi-million strong user base, and the feedback from those users over many years, means its in-built registry cleaning facility has been refined and re-refined again and again.

It's the only scanner I use -- and only on very, very rare occasions -- because experience has shown that it's among the least "aggressive" out there, and thus least likely to inflict harm.

But then again: I'm no fan of this kind of software. No developer yet born is psychic, so cannot possibly know the configuration of my computer (or yours, or anyone else's)and how all the installed programs and services inter-act with each other. That developer's notion of what is an "error" in my registry may actually be so far wide of the mark as to totally screw up that unique inter-dependency.

Bottom line: thanks GAOTD, but no thanks. Today's cleaner does nothing that existing freeware (CCleaner,in my case) doesn't already achieve -- and as for the developer's sheer nerve in describing as "Advanced" and "PRO" something that doesn't even facilitate quick and easy registry backup, words fail . . .

MikeR  –  11 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+151)

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Free alternatives:
CCleaner(+ CCEnhancer), Auslogics Registry Cleaner, Wise Registry Cleaner, Glary Utilities, nCleaner, EasyCleaner, Kingsoft PC Doctor, WinUtilities, Comodo System Cleaner, Eusing Free Registry Cleaner, Toolwiz Care, Mz Ultimate Tools, TweakNow PowerPack Free Version (http://tweaknow.com/download/PowerPack410.exe), Argente - Registry Cleaner, Pointstone Registry Cleaner, Free Window Registry Repair, Registry Life, jv16 PowerTools Lite, Glary Registry Repair

thanks to freeware/open-source developers !

maynak00  –  11 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+129)

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A light edition that fixes registry errors. It works as intended but is not fully featured of that which GOTD previously hosted Elcor Softwares Premium Booster which is a full featured all in one computer diagnostic suite.

Note , GOTD mentions the professional edition in their description while this is a lite version so according to GOTD description its not known whats between the light version and the pro edition. But if you check here:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor/#more-23452

You can see a review of the previous version from Ashraf at Dot Tech.

As always I suggest everyone become familiar with the system restore function of their computer before using any program that fixes the registry, thats no easy piece of cake!

Little Bear  –  11 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+89)

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This GAOTD is just the BASIC version of the main commercial program...so honestly it's not worth neither downloading nor commeting!

BETTER FREEWARE ALTERNATIVES:

* (Portable) CCleaner + CCEnhancer
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/features
http://singularlabs.com/software/ccenhancer/

==> http://www.howtogeek.com/113382/how-to-use-ccleaner-like-a-pro-9-tips-tricks/
==> http://www.blogomatic.net/2012/04/enhance-ccleaners-functionality.html

* (Portable) Wise Registry Cleaner
http://www.wisecleaner.com/wiseregistrycleanerfree.html

* Auslogics Registry Cleaner
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/Auslogics-Registry-Cleaner.shtml

* EasyPC Cleaner Free 1.28
http://www.easypctool.com/pccleaner.html

* Vit Registry Fix Free Edition 9.5.8
http://www.vitsoft.org.ua/en/index.html

* (Portable) Free Window Registry Repair 2.7
http://www.regsofts.com/free_registry_repair/registry_repair.htm
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/System/System-Enhancements/Windows-Portable-Applications-Portable-Free-Window-Registry-Repair.shtml

* AML Registry Cleaner 4.23
http://www.amltools.com/

Not happy yet?? OK...LOL!!

For a more comprehensive FREE PC TUNEUP solution, I highly recommend the following terrific freeware software kissing your wallet & PC issues goodbye:

* PURAN UTILITIES
Superb brand new PC Tuneup utility I came accross a few days ago: over 20 amazing utilities (see below) to get the best performance out of your system, as well as a "one click solution" to keep your PC clean and error free.

• Disk Check - Helps you to fix errors, recover bad sectors on your hard disk using chkdsk.
• Uninstaller - Helps you to uninstall software that you do not need and also software that you are not able to uninstall otherwise.
• Puran Startup Manager - Helps you to enable/disable Windows startup items. It assists your decision in various forms.
• Puran Service Manager - Helps you to enable/disable Windows services. It assists your decision in various forms.
• Puran Disk Cleaner - Helps you to find and delete junk files from your computer. It is highly customizable too.
• Puran Delete Empty Folders - Helps you to delete empty folders from your system. It is extremely fast.
• Fix Shortcuts - Helps you to automatically fix or delete broken shortcuts.
• Puran Registry Cleaner - Helps you to clean Windows registry for better performance.
• Puran Registry Defrag - Helps you to defrag and compact Windows registry for better performance.
• Puran Defrag - Helps you to automatically defrag and optimize your hard disk drives.
• Puran Duplicate File Finder - Helps you to find duplicate files on your computer. It is highly customizable and extremely fast.
• Data Recovery - Helps you to recover data from your damaged media like scratched DVDs, VCDs, BLU Rays etc.
• Disk Files - Helps you to look into details of files distribution on your computer. It is highly customizable.
• Gaming PC - Helps you to create a Gaming Environment on your PC to give your games/apps best of your computer.
• Permanent Delete - Helps you to delete your files permanently so that they cannot be recovered by any software.
• Puran Wipe Disk - Helps you to wipe entire disk or just free space so that no files on it can be recovered.
• Puran Shutdown Timer - Helps you to schedule various shutdown tasks. Many scheduling options are available.
• Splitter - Helps you to spilt any file into files of specified size.
• Delete History - Helps you to delete history and other data of various applications including web browsers.
• Minimal PC - Helps you to close and switch back all the specified services/processes on your computer in a click.
• Batch Fix - Helps you to automatically keep your system clean and error free by running selected utilities.

There is also a "Maintenance Wizard" option to automatically run all these maintenance utilities in a pre-defined order!!

Why this amazing brand-new software is FREE is a big mystery...but honestly, who cares?? LOL!!

http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Utilities.html

Screenshots:
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Puran-Utilities-Screenshot-221345.html

Full review:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/puran-utilities-freeware-optimization-suite-windows-7-8

* KINGSOFT PC DOCTOR
http://www.kingsoftsecurity.com/pcdoctor/

* TOOLWIZ SYSTEM CARE
http://www.toolwiz.com/products/toolwiz-care

* FixMe! 1.5.0.0 (Warning ==> Highly Addictive...LOL!!)
http://smallsolution.blogspot.it/2012/06/fixme.html

* DiskMax
http://www.koshyjohn.com/software/diskmax/

* (Portable) SLIM CLEANER
http://www.slimcleaner.com/features.php

* Portable GLARY UTILITIES
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/System/System-Enhancements/Portable-Glary-Utilities.shtml

* JET CLEAN
http://www.bluesprig.com/jetclean.html

What?? Still not happy yet?? How darn insatiable you are, dudes!!

Ok, for a limited period of time, you can grab a FREE genuine license of the award-winning cleanup Windows tool "WinSysClean X3 v13"(latest version)....so hurry up before it's too late:

http://www.usro.net/de/WK/WX3V/

Download the installer here:
http://www.usro.net/Products/WinSysClean

And now don't tell me I didn't warn you...LOL!!

Enjoy!!

Giovanni (SuperKing of Freebies)  –  11 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+89)

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I think this software has a bug !?
I just get a popup Warning : Access violation at address 00401ED7 in module 'AdvRegDocLite.exe Write of address 006c668.

The only thing I was doing was clicking on Next to REPAIR after a scan !

x facepalm !

crownstarT  –  11 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+33)

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