RegDefense Registry Cleaner
RegDefense 2009 is one of the top selling third-party registry cleaning
software tools available in the market today. If you are contemplating
purchasing an automatic registry cleaner for your computer, chances are that
you will come across RegDefense while reviewing the popular brands.
RegDefense is prominently visible on the Internet websites that promote
registry cleaners. There are also hundreds of reviews of this product on the
web. However, very few of them do it justice as they fail to do a
comprehensive review of the salient features of the product. Here is a
complete review of this software whose manufacturers claim to have won
multiple awards in registry cleaning software category and have millions of
satisfied customers.
Product Information:
RegDefense 2009 belongs to the latest generation of registry cleaner
software. Its trial version is available free on the Internet and can be
easily downloaded. The free version offers to perform a free scan of your
computer and detects errors related to the Windows registry. However, to
repair these errors and to use other advanced features, you will need to buy
the complete version. The complete version can also be purchased online for
a reasonable price of $29.95 and downloaded from the Internet. For this
review we have used the complete version and tested the performance on two
different test machines. We advise that you use the free version first which
will help you get acquainted with the features and help you evaluate whether
it works fine on your system.
Product Installation:
We found RegDefense to be compact software that is less than 3 MB in size.
The download was complete in a few seconds. We proceeded to install the
software on our test machines. One of them had Windows XP while other was
running on Windows Vista. The installation was done without any issues and
we found the process relatively smooth as compared to some other registry
cleaners. RegDefense 2009 is compatible with 32-bit as well as 64-bit
systems. It is recommended that you make sure that you do not have any other
programs running during the installation to avoid any glitches.
User
Interface:
The user interface of RegDefense 2009 is intuitive and easy to use. It is
not much different from the interfaces we find in other popular computer
software programs like anti-virus or anti-spyware. At the same time, the
makers have taken care that all of the important features are accessible
from the main window. There are five buttons present on the side menu and
each of them expands into sub-options. We like the interface as it does not
try too hard to impress by adding unnecessary frills.
Scanning and Cleaning Performance:
The most critical factor for any registry cleaning software is its capacity
to perform a powerful deep scan and ability to detect problem areas as well
as errors in a system. The “scan and clean” feature gives you option of
performing a regular as well as advanced scan. We were pleasantly surprised
by the speed and detailed approach of the software. RegDefense identifies
and repairs errors in more than a dozen categories including:
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Active X/ COM
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Invalid Font Files
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Shared DLL files
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Uninstall Entries
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Application Paths
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Invalid Path or File references
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Invalid Shortcut to Programs
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Invalid and empty registry keys
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Startup Items
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Various File associations
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Drivers
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Rules pertaining Firewalls
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Help Files
The
whole scanning process is quite systematic. While the scan is on, you are
able to view a progress bar which
continuously informs you of the estimated time left to completion. The
software has a Backup/Restore tool
that offers you the option of backing up the registry before you proceed to
clean the errors. The advanced algorithm used by RegDefense 2009 was able to
detect over 1000 errors in both our test machines. To verify the efficiency
of the software, we ran the machines through other registry cleaner brands
and were satisfied that after using RegDefense, no other cleaner found any
errors. This software gives you the option of
Scheduled Scans that is very
convenient.
Salient Features:
There are several advanced features present in RegDefense 2009 that not only
help you clean out the errors but also contribute immensely to optimizing
the performance of your PC. It offers many great features that have been
left out by its competitors. These important features of this software
besides scan and clean include:
a)
Start-Up Manager: This feature will help you manage the Start-up programs
and assist you in getting rid of unnecessary programs that run in the
background during your start-up process. You can disable any program that
you suspect is malware or just redundant. This will improve the time taken
during your Windows Startup and is a better alternative than the built-in
“System Configuration Utility” of Windows.
b)
Error
Reporting Tool: Most of the time users are not even aware of why their
system is encountering so many errors. RegDefense offers a comprehensive
error reporting tool to take care of this issue. This nice feature helps you
understand the cause of the errors so that you know what was behind the
error that is troubling your system.
c)
Registry Compactor: This tool helps in conserving precious space by making
your registry compact by removing empty registry keys from it.
d)
Registry Defragmenter: This tool defragments your registry and makes it more
organized as well as easier to access. We found that we were able to
increase the speed of our test machines through this feature.
e)
Scan
Log: RegDefense helps you take inventory of your registry scan by offering a
helpful feature known as Scan Log.
f)
Evidence Cleaner: This tool preserves confidential and private information
by enabling you to delete the evidence of your computer and Internet
activities.
g)
Junk
File Cleaner: This feature helps you remove files from your system that are
no longer required.
h)
IE
Tools: This feature makes your web browsing more secure as well as pleasant
by getting rid of malicious and redundant add-ons in your Internet Explorer.
Our
Verdict:
RegDefense 2009 gets a thumbs up from our team as we feel that this software
offers a combination of great scanning ability and advanced features in a
price which gives you biggest bang for your buck. So if you are planning to
buy a registry cleaner, RegDefense 2009 should be up there at the top of
your list.
http://www.registrydefense.com/
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