Hi there and welcome at Fixya, the support team tip (lfete)
I will review 2 portable programs I use to clean computers:
- Glary Utilities
- Wise Registry Cleaner
Glary UtilitiesAt first I thought Glary Utilities is the same as Ccleaner, but after studying the suggestions of Glary Utilities, in terms of cleaning the registry, I could see that Glary Utilities finds different errors than CCleaner but is also safe to use. Because Glary Utilties is portable it was easy to test it on other machines without leaving any trace on the computer that the program has been there, and that is a thing I like very much. Remember, you do not want to spend time to install and then uninstall a registry cleaner.
Glary Utilities main window
Glary U. description of chosen entry
Glary Utilities after cleaning
Wise Registry Cleaner
Initially I used the installer version, not portable verison, of Wise Registry Cleaner, because at the time I did not know there is a portable version of Wise Registry Cleaner. However I am glad I used Wise Registry Cleaner, even though I had to install it, because it found around 400 entries to delete (safely) the first time I ran it, and it had a good explanation for what each entry is, what it is for, and what category it belongs to. If you do not know many things about registry try to scan your computer with this software, highlight individual entries, and see on the bottom of the window what it is for a file and why you can delete it; this way you can learn a lot about registry and registry cleaners. Of course if you scanned your computer for learning purposes only, you can always choose to not delete anything, closing the program after you read all the info. With Wise Registry Cleaner, only the registry entries which are "safe" to delete are checked for deleting by default; however you can always manually check the other entries there are a lot of possibilities here if you want to go further.
Wise Registry Cleaner after scan
Wise Registry Cleaner backup of registry
Wise registry Cleaner info on entry
Wise Registry Cleaner after cleaning the registry
I use these programs I just mentioned to clean my computer and others. One of the biggest reasons I find them all so useful is all three have portable versions so you can have them on a USB stick and clean computer after computer without having to install anything. The other main reason I have used these to is because I havent had any problems after cleaning computers with them if I use the safe/default mode of course.
You can use them separately or together. Together they clean better, because in one way or another they each find different errors on the computer as they search in different ways.
Personally, I categorize them in the following 2 steps:
- Middle phase cleaning - Glary Utilities (at default settings)
- Deep cleaning - Wise Registry Cleaner (delete the safe ones (they are marked safe) registry files)
You can download the programs from the following links:
( For more tips to computers I can recommend this site :
http://dottech.org/ )
Glary Utilities homepage [
direct download to portable version]
Wise Registry Cleaner homepage [
direct download to portable version]
Have a nice time over there
1. We don't help people STEAL software, don't waste our time or yours asking again.
2. Just a peice of advise, I have been a tech longer than windows has existed, and I have never met a person who A. Needed the help of a registry cleaning program and B. knew enough about running one to use it safely. If you're in that bad of shape and need to fix a damaged registry I recommend restoring your backup(assuming you knew to make one) or re-install windows and then start making occassional backups so ou can recover from problems.
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