Advice Request System maintenance & system backup tools

[anirbandutta01]

Wise Disk Cleaner is free, does a good job of cleaning junk files and fortunately does not include a registry cleaner. There are many third party defrag tools, but there's no particular reason not to just let Windows defrag your drives automatically.

Okay that means I don't need any registry defragment or registry cleaner ?

 

[Berny]

Also → AOMEI Partition Assistant

 

[roger_m]

Okay that means I don't need any registry defragment or registry cleaner ?

Yes that's right. It is exceptionally rare for registry cleaners to fix any issues you are having with a computer and even rarer for them to make a computer run noticably faster. Aside from that at least 99% of registry cleaners have issues with false positives, which means that sometimes they will want to delete valid registry keys. Doing so, can sometimes cause problems.

 

[anirbandutta01]

Yes that's right. It is exceptionally rare for registry cleaners to fix any issues you are having with a computer and even rarer for them to make a computer run noticably faster. Aside from that at least 99% of registry cleaners have issues with false positives, which means that sometimes they will want to delete valid registry keys. Doing so, can sometimes cause problems.

Thank you so much

 

[Jonny Quest]

Yes that's right. It is exceptionally rare for registry cleaners to fix any issues you are having with a computer and even rarer for them to make a computer run noticably faster. Aside from that at least 99% of registry cleaners have issues with false positives, which means that sometimes they will want to delete valid registry keys. Doing so, can sometimes cause problems.

When I was using Bitdefender, it would find a conservative amount of "issues", Kaspersky is the same way. But I believe both still don't give any specific information on what it found and wants to delete. I had compared a BD Vulnerability scan compared to CCleaner and Glary Utilities. It was interesting what all 3 found (ran the scans one after the other). So I agree, unless you know what you're looking for, those utilities are overkill and you could cause needless issues if you enabled the auto delete.

Bitdefender 16 keys.

Glary 136


CCleaner 92

 

[Digmor Crusher]

Many years ago I wanted to give Trusteer Rapport a try, it wouldn't install because it said I had some program on my computer which was incompatible. The problem is I uninstalled that program months earlier. I did a scan with a registry cleaner which deleted an orphaned registry entry that fixed the problem. This is the only time a registry entry gave me a problem.

The issue with these cleaners is that they all use different algorithms to clean, which basically means they can all be right or all be wrong at the same time.

 

[roger_m]

When I was using Bitdefender, it would find a conservative amount of "issues", Kaspersky is the same way. But I believe both still don't give any specific information on what it found and wants to delete. I had compared a BD Vulnerability scan compared to CCleaner and Glary Utilities. It was interesting what all 3 found (ran the scans one after the other). So I agree, unless you know what you're looking for, those utilities are overkill and you could cause needless issues if you enabled the auto delete.

When a registry cleaner does not show the registry keys it wants to delete, it is a cause for concern. While I have let Kaspersky clean the registry issues it finds, which are usually very few, I'd greatly prefer to be able to see what it wants to delete, so I can check for false positives. Almost all registry cleaners have issues with false positives, so even a registry cleaner from a trusted publisher such as a security vendor, may sometimes want to delete valid registry keys.