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Portable Little Registry Cleaner tidies up Windows registry clutter
Like the dark corners of your C: drive, your Windows registry can accumulate quite a bit of clutter. Little Registry Cleaner is on the job, ready to locate registry refuse and dispose of it.
The application weighs in at just over 1mb and is fully portable - just extract the exe file's contents to a folder using an application like 7zip. Start it up, click the scan button, and LRC will locate registry entries that can be removed without harming your system.
Since CCleaner is my current cleanup app of choice, I ran it side-by-side. While CCleaner's scan was faster, LRC located 32 more items. After fixing problems, LRC automatically re-scanned and found 6 remaining issues (all missing icons) it couldn't fix. CCleaner didn't have any luck removing them either.
Little Registry Cleaner also includes a startup manager and contains a good set of options for less experienced users. By default, it automatically creates system restore points, checks for updates, and has a built-in registry restore funciton. I would like to see an option to disable the scanning results pop-up window - the important information is already presented in the main window.
It's a free download and runs on both 32 and 64-bit Windows, and is a nice registry cleanup option for more inexperienced users.
The application weighs in at just over 1mb and is fully portable - just extract the exe file's contents to a folder using an application like 7zip. Start it up, click the scan button, and LRC will locate registry entries that can be removed without harming your system.
Since CCleaner is my current cleanup app of choice, I ran it side-by-side. While CCleaner's scan was faster, LRC located 32 more items. After fixing problems, LRC automatically re-scanned and found 6 remaining issues (all missing icons) it couldn't fix. CCleaner didn't have any luck removing them either.
Little Registry Cleaner also includes a startup manager and contains a good set of options for less experienced users. By default, it automatically creates system restore points, checks for updates, and has a built-in registry restore funciton. I would like to see an option to disable the scanning results pop-up window - the important information is already presented in the main window.
It's a free download and runs on both 32 and 64-bit Windows, and is a nice registry cleanup option for more inexperienced users.
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Subscribe to commentsMrViklundFeb 25th 2009 9:38AM
Well. Might come in handy.
FredFeb 25th 2009 11:18AM
Tried it out, crashes in Vista x64.
MikeFeb 25th 2009 11:48AM
50$ says that my portable version of WinXP Manager and its registry cleaner would find WAY more than CCleaner or this app.
Haven't found an app that finds more junk on a system yet.
Greg NeilsonFeb 25th 2009 1:16PM
I use Glary Utilities
http://www.glaryutilities.com (free one)
It's NEVER screwed anything up.
LRC may be beter but can I trust it?
GU does a dozen other things also.
RanManFeb 25th 2009 10:07PM
I used the program and it did find some entries that three other cleaners did not find.
Interestingly on my PC it takes a little time to start after launching the program. (Maybe just my PC?)
It did clean up the registry and did not break anything so I am happy with it. I will use it over the long term to decide if it is a keeper.
I stopped using Glary Utilities because it mucked up the registry so my Brother fax-printer-scanner would not work and I got a bunch of annoying error messages on my XP machine. Happened three times and I had to reload the Brother software three times. I reported the problem to Glary as FYI months ago and never heard back, so I stopped using it.
Point is . . as most of us know some programs work great for some PCs and not so great on other PCs. Depends upon installed programs,etc. It did work OK on my other machine, Vista, but didn't seem to find as many errors as Argente and couple of others that escape me right now.
macejvMar 8th 2009 9:03AM
What you are presenting now it is a good registry cleaner, but me as like others feel not so sure when using new programs. For example, i am now still using the jv16 PowerTools registry cleaner for some years, although i have updated annually (now i have the 2009 edition). For me this seems to be the best solution in order to have my computer fully-functional and my Windows well optimized.