Registry cleaners aren't needed unless you're some special snowflake with an extremely specific issue. In fact they tend to do more harm than good.
There's often no need to ever clean the registry. It's exceptionally rare for so called registry errors to cause issues and even rarer for them to be making your computer run slower.
I haven't used it for a few years. But in the past, it did not do a very thorough job of scanning for leftovers.
Nothing's changed unfortunately. Hibit does a better job.
In my experience Hibit has been as thorough as Revo when it comes to cleaning leftovers.
I have broken software with Revo Free Advanced Scan many times.
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It's fast, and the developer has fixed bugs fast, doesn't force reboot. Multiple versions of software won't cause issues, won't remove all of them, only the specific version. So for those still afraid, they don't need to be.
If you check what it cleans, then it's not an issue. but yes, not checking and just relying on the software, and cleaning random stuff, isn't a good idea. but Hibit, cleans what's related to the software you are uninstalling, so just check it's correct, but it's different to Ccleaner doing registry cleaning, as it scans for uninstalled software. But mistakes can happen so check.
if there's a free software that does the job better or as well, I don't see a reason to pay. Hibit & OBS are great examples of that.
Because it makes a backup of what it is removing, so you can easily recover if something went wrong.
I have a lot of false positives with Revo advanced scan that it shows registry entries related to other software.
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