Are your hands red and rough from manually scrubbing your Windows Registry? Are your nails dry and brittle from scraping errant and obsolete information left behind from programs you’ve deleted? Do you suffer from Registry bloat?
Well, weep no more! RegScrubXP from Lexun FreeWare, scans your Registry and detects various problems, including deleting unnecessary information, which results in a cleaner, faster Registry. At least, this junk consumes space; at worst, it can corrupt your Registry, rendering your system unusable.
As usual, you should back up your Registry before using RegScrubXP or working on it at all, using RegEdit. We were impressed with how RegScrubXP let us pick and choose what we wanted to change. Especially useful is the XP Tips and Tweaks option, which let us modify system settings, like speeding up window display, setting our CD drive to autorun, and shutdown XP faster.
RegScrubXP is not for the newbie; you shouldn’t tamper with your Windows Registry if you don’t know exactly what you need; however, if you’re an intermediate-to-advanced user, RegScrubXP supplies a unified method that helps you find problems. You can let RegScrubXP fix problems automatically as well. Try it, won’t you?
The Help documentation, surprisingly detailed, provides a quick tutorial to get you started. Help for dishpan registry hands? You’re soaking in it!
Where to get it: http://www.lexunfreeware.com/RegScrubXP/RegScrubXP.htm Price: Free. Donations are welcomed. Requirements: PC running Windows XP or Windows 2000
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