https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/ en Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:49:07 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98355 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:49:07 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98355 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98354 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:27:48 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98354 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98353 EXCEPT when I cold booted (several times to verify), my good old laptop PC (512mb ram, 1.6 Intel Centrino M), took longer to boot than I have ever experienced before! I mean like 3 times longer - OUCH! I personally don't shy away from reg cleaners/optimisers/etc. but in this case I'd definitely turn the other cheek. Peace - D]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:21:25 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98353 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98352 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:30:12 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98352 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98351 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:09:08 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98351 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98350 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:04:17 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98350 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98349 "Bottom line, when my Registry is “beyond the help of the OS’ internal housekeeping routines”," There really is no such thing as Windows keeping the registry clean -- it's impossible for Windows to know which reg entries are good or bad when they're put there by 3rd party software that no one outside that company has the source for. Besides, Microsoft's own msi installer is one of the worst offenders ever written! And they're not going to get rid of their own junk.]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:17:45 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98349 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98348 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:05:50 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98348 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98347 Registry Mechanic to do a full sweep, about 2 years ago: SATA Primary hard disk drive 0 failure Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility The fix for this was probably not what you might think. Yes, I pressed F1, then F2 out of curiosity. I got the results I expected...nothing. I attempted to restart it but got the same error message. Then I remembered one more strategy: Turn off the computer and then back on. It worked! I have received this error message on and off for at least 2 years and the only thing that I can attribute it to is this theory about a wrangled up registry key occasionally referring to a RAID configuration (I don't use RAID but it shows up in the Device Manager...is that normal?). Use a registry cleaner if one of these apply to you: 1) You have a lingering error message, you like to tinker and don't mind a catastrophic failure of some sort. 2) You are trying to fix a minor problem that, if not solved, will cause you to resort to reformatting your hard drive and reinstalling the operating system because you just can't stand nonfatal error messages. In my experience, the only way you gain more speed is by removing an actual error, not by getting rid of the debris left behind by programs that didn't uninstall properly. By the way, I still use Registry Mechanic 7 in that I allow it to check for stuff but I don't permit it to "clean" anything anymore. I'll do that myself, when I have time.]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:37:29 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98347 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98346 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:56:28 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-0/#comment-98346