Registry Winner
License: Shareware
Operating
system: Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP, and
Price: $34.95
Developer: repairandsecure.com
Registry Winner, a registry cleaner from
repairandsecure.com, claims to be an excellent product that is designed to
eliminate system slowdown, freezing, crashing and deadlock issues. In
addition, the tool promises to optimize the speed and overall performance of
your system. It is compatible with Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP, and
Registry Winner offers a free trial version
that you can download and use to scan your PC to see the errors in the
registry. They also offer a free online scan which does not require you to
download any application. Of course, to have all your errors eliminated you
will need to purchase the paid version of the tool. The licensed version
will cost you $34.95 per year. With an additional payment of $9.95 at the
time of the first purchase, you can have your license extended to three
years.
Registry Winner also comes with an ‘unconditional’ 60 days money-back guarantee—which makes the tool a safe investment.
Installation And Scanning
Our Registry Winner download and installation went through without any issues. The main interface has a pleasing look and is quite user friendly. For the novice, the application comes with a handbook which helps people who aren't technical types. The application is quite simple to use. You can scan, clean, and have your registry repaired – and all it takes is a few clicks.
The application does a deep scan of the registry to look for issues related to the items you select. You can select to scan any or all of the following:
- ActiveX/OLE/COM
- Add/Remove
- Application Paths
- Fonts
- Shared Files
- Help Files
- Drivers
- System Services
- Invalid Shortcuts
- File Associations
- Sounds
- History/MRU Lists
- Startup Items
- File Extensions
- Empty Registry Keys
We recommend that you utilize the ‘Select All’ option for a complete scan.
At the end of the scan, all detected errors are listed individually against the items you selected to scan. Our technical team felt that the errors reported seemed higher than what they normally see on their system. We feel this does not necessarily mean that the application is a better product. Of course, Registry Winner does a deep scan, but we do hope they have not gone overboard with their diagnosis – a common marketing strategy in trial versions to get more people to buy.
One click, and the errors get fixed in no time. A message displays informing you about the number of individual errors detected and the number of errors fixed.
Registry Backup
The backup feature of the application allows you to make a backup of the registry before any changes are done. This is an important feature as you can revert to your original registry in case of any mishap during scanning and repairing.
Registry Winner Features
Registry Winner comes with a very long list of features when compared to some other popular registry cleaners. The features include:
- Evidence Cleaner
- Junks Cleaner
- Files Shredder
- Backup
- BHO Manager
- IE Recover
- IE Problems
- Computer Management
- Windows Update
- System Properties
- Control Panel
- Disk Defragmenter
- Disk Cleanup
- Local Security Settings
- Local Users and Groups
- Group Policy Editor
- Device Manager
- Event Viewer
- Disk Management
- Performance Monitor
- Startup Manager
- Add/Remove Manager
Our team is of the opinion that most of these features will be more than what's needed by most users, unless you're a hard core techie who understands the innards of the computer system. Here's a look at some of the features:
- Evidence Cleaner – Every site you visit online leaves a trace on your system. Anyone can see the sites you've visited and the activities you've performed, invading your privacy. Through this feature of Registry Winner all traces of history items can be deleted permanently.
- Junk Cleaner – As you use your PC, it accumulates a lot of useless data. Temporary files created by programs remain in your system, using up precious space on the hard drive. This feature helps scan your system for such junk items and remove them.
- BHO Manager –Browser Help Objects (BHO) are loaded and run every time you open your Internet Explorer. Some of these BHOs are useful, some are not. Some can even be added by spyware or adware programs. Using the BHO Manager feature of Registry Winner application, these unused and harmful IE plug-ins can be easily eliminated. This improves the browser speed of your PC.
- Disk Defragmenter – It's normal that a user keeps on adding and removing files that take up space in the hard disk. You need to de-fragment the disk to recover the space and allow the system to access the files quickly. This is what the disk defragmenter does – it helps eliminate these spaces in your hard disk.
- Startup Manager – When you start up your system several programs and processes load automatically and run in the background. Many of these processes are not required, and they unnecessarily slow down the startup process as well as your computer. Using Startup Manager, you can customize the list and disable the programs that aren't required for startup. This helps minimize use of system resources and speeds up the startup.
- Add/Remove Manager - As you use your PC, you normally install a number of pieces of software. Some you use regularly and some are rarely used. At times, the software you uninstall is partially removed. All such software programs form unnecessary congestion in the registry. Add/Remove Manager allows you to remove all such items, un-cluttering the registry as well as your hard disk.
Our Verdict
Our team finds the Registry Winner registry cleaning software easy to use. We have found it has more features than other registry cleaners similar to it.
The errors were detected and repaired to our satisfaction. All errors, including runtime errors and dll errors, are taken care of. We also noticed that there was a tremendous improvement in the startup speed and the overall performance of the system.
Registry Winner is a user-friendly application and can easily be used by a novice and a non-techie. Their 60 days ‘unconditional’ money back guarantee ensures that the developers are confident of their product. This makes us doubly sure of Registry Winner.
We recommend Registry Winner as a registry cleaning software to take care of all your system errors and problems.
Useful Links:
http://www.registrywinner.com/
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