TSGL: : freeware registy cleaner/file cleaner

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I use the Window Live "one care" program weekly to clean  the registry and 
the disk and disk fragmentation if necessary.  I also  use Windows Malicious 
Software Removal Tool and Trend Micro House Call on a  weekly basis. 
Is that good enough to do what ERUNT does or  not?
Would it be wise for me to find a stand alone file  cleaner?
I was looking at programs to download on PC World's download  site and came 
up with the following and wondered if anyone knew anything about  them or 
recommend them.
_DustBuster_ 
(http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,22384-order,1-page,1-c,harddisk/description.html)  
 

Get rid of unnecessary files  and directories on your hard drive.  
_Clean  System Directory 1.7_ 
(http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,4143-order,1-page,1-c,systemresourcestuneup/description.html)  

Remove all those stray DLLs from your  system.
I also use the following, Spybot - Search and Destroy,  Ad-Award SE Personal, 
PC-cillin, Spy Sweeper & Windows  Defender.
Maybe one of the programs that I use cleans unnecessary files,  directories 
or stray DLLs, that's above my knowledge and I don't touch anything  that I 
know nothing about.  I'm afraid of messing something  up.
Toni

 
 

Chuck  wrote:
>How does that work if you install a few programs over the last  few years?>>


I do a registry backup every 2 or 3 months---it  only takes 10 seconds with 
ERUNT, so that takes care of newer  software.

If the computer really starts to get pretty hairy, and you  have go back to 
an original registry, say a year or two old, then, yes,  you will have to 
reinstall most of your programs.  That's very rare,  as the incremental 
restorations keep the registry pretty clean in  general.  Certainly far 
cleaner and more reliable than any "Cleaner"  will achieve.

But that's not a bad thing, it really doesn't take long,  your software is 
nice and shiny new again, and you won't bother to  reinstall all the stuff 
you might have thought a good idea at the time,  but never actually got 
around to using.

Of course, it's essential  to keep all your installation CD's and 
downloads--I burn the latter to a  CD every 6 months to keep them up to 
date, discarding all the older  versions which have been superceded.

It's just another alternative to  cloning your OS partition---for those of 
us who don't have good cloning  software, or find that process too complex.

For more details, see my  Web tutorial on registry backups.

Don Penlington


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Computer tutorials, local  scenery,  and other things at my  website:
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