Somehow my PC system seems to block me from this developer YL Computing website.
Do not know why.
Anyway, share with you a funny cleaning event in the past.

My record of most aggressive registry cleaner I have used was from Software4U. It seemed to be a German company.
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It gave the following registry scan results on 12-Aug-2012:
ActiveX. OLE etc - 407 Errors
Software - 49,590 Errors
Process entries - 539 Errors
File types - 874 Errors

Of course it meant trouble.
Just out of curiosity I "cleaned" according to the results.
Because I knew I can restore if it damaged the PC.
As expected, it crashed my PC.
Cannot boot PC after that.
Did a bare metal restore of the PC from a recent backup.

How is this a give away, all this does is scan the registry and reports on the number of errors found. How does anyone know if the errors found are real or not? Registry files should not be tampered with, as stated many times before when such software is offered many of these programs can actually l do more damage by removing essential registry files. Invalid or corrupted registry files are ignored by windows and take up very little space even on the smallest of drives. Removing them will make absolutely no difference to your system's speed. Only users with advanced knowledge of how the registry files work should access them and exercise extreme caution, it only takes one careless mistake to kill your system. In short this type of software is nothing but snake oil and my advice is to avoid them. I've worked in IT for many years and have lost count of the number of systems that have been killed through meddling with the registry files .... And in case you hadn't guessed it I'm passing on today's "offer"

what is the purpose of giving away that need to purchase?
the so-called giveaway that cannot fix the problems that served no purpose at all.
hence, don't even have to waste time for downloading something useless to occupied the storage space.

As with any Registry, Operating System program that makes changes to,, to operation of Operation systems , is best left to experts , To the Novice or even advance user , it may make unwanted changes , It should include a statement , Use at your own risk .... , De-frag your Hard drive , clean your web history once in awhile , And any program that says it will speed up your Pc will usually do more harm than good.

I'm a PC tech with over 25 years of experience. I use registry cleaners on my client's systems, as well as my own. I've never had a problem with registry cleaners. They look for orphan registry entries that no longer serve any use. The only time I had a problem with editing the registry was when I was a novice and tried to do it manually and had to do a total reinstall of the OS. They may not make your computer run any faster. HOWEVER, they are useful for getting rid of leftover registry entries from malware after you've run a malware cleaner (like Malwarebytes) that may still be affecting your computer.

I need to install ScanMyReg 3.1 on a pc machine with Windows XP SP3. The ad in YL Computing or Pcclean states in the requirements that XP is supported, but I get that the provided setup is not a win32 compatible application. Is there a way to get a solution? I think I have 12 hrs. left for an answer.

I downloaded installed and used the registration code but it is not giving me the full version. I think this would be a good product but not unless it's the full version.

I highly recommend staying away from registry optimizers/cleaners in general. They can really screw up Windows.

What a joke. Installed and scanned my registry on a brand new computer. Found 379 errors and when I clicked on fix errors it took me directly to a purchase page for $24.95. Free???? I don't think so.

Just wanted to say that I have been running Win Utilities Pro which has Scan My Reg as part of the program for a few years. I use Revo Uninstaller Pro to install and uninstall programs. I run CCleaner Pro first and then Win Utilities Pro registry cleaner. The registry cleaner in Win Utilities Pro finds things that CCleaner doesn't. All I can say is after using all 3 of these programs on a regular basic I have never had any computer problems with them. I started using them with XP Pro and now still using Win 7 Pro. I would recommend all 3 of these programs that I purchased and use.

Hi everybody. :-)

No problems with windows defender and the setup.exe of this program: it doesn't block it.
The installer says "publisher unknown" (UAC window).
When I try to launch the program, it says "publisher unknown" (UAC window).
The program doesn't start because I've enabled DEP (alwaysOn), like every other program of ylcomputing.
All other programs works... I don't know why they hate DEP.

Uninstalled.

No software on earth can recognize all of the irrelevant entries because many if not all software register under one name then starts to use the registries (hives) as a scratch pad under different name for entries of user behavior i.e. what, when and how long was the session and what was done during that time.
Example:
SoftOrbits uses the registries as daily log, like a scratch pad, to enter time, date, length, software start time, end time, even a log for internet access, IP addresses and so on.
We need software that will transfer only the registration keys to a new registry (hives) and delete the old one.
Now, it someone can do that, I will be the first to buy such software.
Gimmicks, like this one today, will never make me install or buy their software.

Downloaded and installed without issue. Read-me file gives name(Giveawayoftheday) and activation code to register and activate the full pro edition. It works fine. I don't know why others say that it doesn't. Maybe they didn't read the "read me" file that came with the .exe file. Anyway, the program automatically makes a system restore point before making any changes. And it has the option to backup your registry as well. When I ran Scanmyreg, it found 267 errors and fixed/repaired/or deleted them. The procedure was quick and to the point. Rebooted, and all is well. YL Computing has been around awhile, about twelve years. They make a well received system optimization utility called Win Utilities Pro which addresses much more than just the registry. I have it and it too works as advertised. I have a question though, does anyone know if this registry repair tool is either more or less than the one that comes with Win Utilities Pro? As it is, I give this registry tool, ScanMyReg 3.1 two thumbs up. BTW, I'm running Windows 10, 64 bit with latest updates on a new desktop computer. Peace.

registry 'errors' or obsolete registry keys take up little space. they do not speed up the pc if removed. back in the 90's it may have had a very small effect, but unless you are using something like ccleaner which is tried and tested over many years i wouldn't use anything else which could quite easily mess up the running of the pc.

CCleaner + Revo Uninstaller is all I need

Over the years I've noticed that almost every offering here will say 'it's the BEST' or the FASTEST. Obviously they can't ALL be the best or fastest. Marketing, marketing, marketing. The vendors that post here don't realize that there are some very sophisticated users here and will point out their phony claims in a second. We're not all stupid.

Garbage Windows 10 will not download. The free version of CCleaner sorts out the registry and does a lot lot more

Install this smart free program to Fix your Registery.

Scanning... Scanning..

You got 673 Errors, Buy the real program now and fix your Errors??????

So what did the Key for this program do if i still have to buy it to fix the errors

won't activate says you must purchase

Windows keeps blocking me from unzipping . Don't know why.

fastest and most effective registry optimization...
Who did the testing
What where the results of multiple other registry optimization utilities
Why does this feel misleading

Kudos to today's developer for eschewing the odious boilerplate text so often found in the hyping of this type of software: words like 'clean' and 'repair' are, thankfully, notable for their absence -- just as well, because a registry never gets dirty, nor does a registry cleaner ever fix anything.

Sadly though, having side-stepped the discredited "cleaning & repair" mythology, today's developer instead deploys the latest fanciful fiction that's doing the rounds: 'registry optimization utility'. Oh dear.

There's no such thing as an 'optimized' Windows registry. If there was, then one company in particular would've created a tool to achieve such optimization, and would today be making a fortune out of providing it to Windows users worldwide.

The company's name is Microsoft.

It invented Windows, and with Windows 3.1 introduced the concept of a database -- which is all that 'the registry' is -- that would be uniquely individual to the particular computer on which Windows was running.

Microsoft also at that time introduced the world's first 'registry cleaner' (we're going back more than 25 years now, just in case you were wondering) but then dropped the darn thing because -- surprise, surprise -- it couldn't infallibly identify which of several thousand registry entries on a particular computer might actually be redundant.

Today, a PC's database -- its registry -- doesn't have the coupla thousand entries that it did in the 3.1 era. Today, your computer's database can comprise many, many hundreds of thousands of entries. So now, the risk of mis-identification is exponentially higher. We're no longer in the world of kb computing or even MB computing but gigabyte computing -- a world that can be turned on its head just because the removal of a few miserable kbs of database content are claimed by some software publisher or other to , er, 'speed up' your PC. As if.

Microsoft is, without a doubt, one of the most aggressively profit-driven companies of 'em all, so if it thought it could make a buck or two out of selling something to 'optimize' its own wares, it would be doing so right now. It would have updated the Windows 3.1 'cleaner' it originally toyed with but then abandoned after discovering it had the potential to do more harm than good.

But. . . it hasn't.

Microsoft not only doesn't offer a cleaner, compactor, optimizer, vacuum, speed-upper, or what-ever-you-want-to-call-it, Microsoft advises any and every Windows computer user not to go anywhere near any such cleaner, compactor, optimizer, vacuum or tidy-upper either:

"Microsoft does not support the use of registry cleaners . . .

"Microsoft is not responsible for issues caused by using a registry cleaning utility. Microsoft strongly recommends that you only change values in the registry that you understand or have been instructed to change by a source you can trust, and that you back up the registry anyway before making any changes. . .

"Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the use of a registry cleaning utility can be solved. Issues caused by these utilities may not be repairable and lost data may not be recoverable."

On which basis then: go against the actual advice of the actual creator of the actual Windows system you happen to be running and, um, well: you obviously know more about this than does Microsoft.

Finally. . . Friends and family have on occasion taken the trouble to enquire just what the heck a computer's registry is. There's a ton of info out there on the 'Net for those interested enough to find out, but the reference resource I most often point to is this FAQ guidance from Tim Fisher:

https://www.lifewire.com/what-does-a-registry-cleaner-do-2625141

Hope this helps.

I have previously used registry cleaners and my experience is that they often cause more harm than help.
The registry will eventually contain a lot of irrelevant information as you install and uninstall programs, since virtually all programs uninstall routine does not even delete a fraction of everything spread on your hard drive and in your registry.
My solution was to get a good uninstaller program that could track and save all changes during program installation.
The solution became my part, Revo uninstaller PRO, and now I never have a problem with the computer wasting down due to registry errors.

PC killers, all of these programs. Even if there is redundant registry entries they won’t cause any problems, leave the registry alone.

Today's giveaway should definitely be avoided. There is no need to ever clean the registry, as I will explain below.

The publisher claims ScanMyReg will speed up your computer and fix errors. Which of course, sounds good. But, the reality is that no matter how many hundreds or thousands of so called errors ScanMyReg, or any other registry cleaner will find, cleaning them won't speed up your slow computer and almost certainly will not fix any problems. Also, ScanMyReg will often think some valid registry keys are errors. If you delete these registry keys, it will sometimes cause problems.

I have many years experience, using a lot of different registry cleaners, on many different computers. In that time, only once has cleaning the registry, made a computer noticably faster. Also, only a few times have I fixed issues, such as error messages or crashes, by cleaning the registry. With that in mind and considering that today's giveaway may cause problems (rather than fix them), by deleting needed registry keys, the smart thing to do it.

Pokazuje poprawny klucz,ale nadal jest nie pełna wersja.Jak to naprawić?

From Norton Website:

Behavior
PUA.ScanMyReg is a potentially unwanted application that gives misleading information about issues on the computer. It then asks the user to pay to fix the issues.

Running Win 7 Ultimate. Installed, registered, restarted, asks to purchase after first analysis, uninstalled.

Does this app perform better than ccleaner, because generally I do not trust registry cleaners, I am afraid they will worsen my pc performance!

I've used V 2.2 many years and it seems to be a reliable, since I had never any problems caused by it. But I often thought that it finds too much entries and after cleaning them, the items reoccur with the next scan. Being aware that these kind of SW are actually "Snake-Oil" and often said to be completely unnecessary, I had the impression that let run it once in a while, made the performance a bit better. I'm grateful for the GAOTD and will replace my V 2.2, but I would definitely skip it, if I had to pay for it.