Probably good just for the optimization ability. CCleaner and Glary Utilities cleans and repairs broken links and such but neither one defrags the registry. Maybe I'll check it out.

It is a safe one as well, Uvah.

will try it, anything to get this ol XP faster... thanks all

I found out about compacting the registry quite by accident - about 10 years ago.  I was working on a Win98 computer that would not boot (it said the system hive was corrupt).  I managed to get into Safe mode command line, rename the registry hive and copy over the original (which would do this guy no good since all of the SW he installed).  Just on a lark, I then loaded the old system hive into Regedit and saved it back.  And it worked!  The size went from bloated to just big and I was able to copy it back and restart windows and all was well! 

I will give this one a try too.  I found out due to that episode that all the registry is - is a flat file database.

Have just done some work with the software and cleaned a great deal of crap out and optimized. Much faster reboot.

The tool looks interesting, Doc.

Just a question: what do you think about Wise Registry Cleaner Free http://www.wisecleaner.com/wiseregistrycleanerfree.html ? I'm using it since a while (and Wise Disk Cleaner Free as well) and in my opinion is a very good one, and very safe as well - it tells you which registry entries or values are safe to delete and which are not, so you can choose - . Of course there are backup and defragmenting options as well - you can also select which sections of registry system you want to defrag - .

Just one thing: it's strongly suggested don't change default scanned files settings, unless you got a VERY DETAILED knowledge of your registry system files.

btw, in Registry Life defragmenting runs by default, or it's possible to choose? I mean, it's possible to make just a cleaning or backup, or every time the application is started defragmenting runs after cleaning, so a reboot it's needed? 

It's possible to choose. I also like the fact that you can "backup" at each stage.

Don't know if Wiseregistrycleaner defrags also... if it does, keep using it. I see no immense reason to change over.

You could check one against the other... 

Downloaded it and ran it, found things CCleaner didn't and cleaned up.  It also found some items that neither will clear up, hmmm.

I dl'd it and it ran nice and smooth. Automatically rebooted after you click finish. I ran CCleaner first though. It only found a couple things CCleaner missed.

Downloaded it. The application works fine. The software scanning engine works in a different way from the Wise Registry Cleaner one; they can work "together" as well (each of them find things the other one doesn't). 

About backup they are same: automatically made before cleaning, although Wiseregistrycleaner allows to make a FULL registry backup every time you wish, even if you are not going to clean it.  One thing about defrag: with Wiseregistrycleaner IT'S NOT REQUIRED to close the antivirus (in my case Kaspersky Internet Security) before running optimization, and IT'S NOT REQUIRED reboot after finishing defrag.

Anyway, very useful tool. Thanks for the info, Doc