Jon, I've used 2 tools.

1. A free one from Microsoft - RegClean - last version was 4.1 or something, 1998. I still use it occasionally on my Win 2K machine. It makes .dat files of what it changed, so that you can restore things.

2. RegCleaner at www.jv16.org - mine is older, the power tools 2005 probably are closest to what I have. $30

HTH
Vern

At 01:27 PM 9/11/2005, you wrote:

Anyone got any experience with good registry clean-up tools?

I ran the Free Registry Fix tool that PC Mag have on their download site.
Trouble is while it reported hundreds (literally) of errors on the 6 month
old machine, it has a number of problems.

- This free version only fixes 50 items.
- It doesn't tell you which 50
- It doesn't back up the registry before it starts (every other fixer I've
ever used does that - or at least suggests you do so - so it didn't occur to
me!)
- It doesn't tell you what is wrong - so it is tough to tell whether the
report is genuine or not

Given the above I'm very reluctant to hand over the dollars for the full
version.

Any suggestions?

Jon Paris
Partner400

www.Partner400.com
www.RPGWorld.com

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