Some features, such as the registry tools, perform the same tasks that they do with other products, but not necessarily in the same way. For example, I had System Mechanic perform a registry cleaning, ...

Waste of time 99% of the time.<BR><BR>The typical reason given for 'cleaning' registry is something along the lines of 'registry too big = system slowdown', and is devoid of knowledge about how the ...

It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down with age. Disks fill up with the detritus of use, from old file fragments to the echoes of programs that once lived but are now remembered ...

If you’re using a “registry cleaner” or “disk cleaner” application (CCleaner, Wise Cleaner and Auslogics are three popular examples), you should stop now. You’re wasting your money (up to $30 a year ...

If there’s one software category that program makers never tire of taking a crack at it’s registry cleaners. As many Microsoft Windows users know, the registry is a database of all the settings on a ...

InformationWeek has a great article comparing ten Windows Registry Cleaning software titles. They tested each title on an identical disk configuration. I made a disk "image" (a bit-for-bit exact copy ...

Growing up, I heard a lot about PC cleaning apps, and used many of them myself. Everyone always wishes they could get a little more performance out of their PC, so seeing all these apps claiming to ...