So why would you even use a registry cleaner in the first place? Well, they have to do something right or they wouldn't even be allowed to be sold (if paid for) or if they were free (CCleaner for example) there would be a huge backlash, more than what there already is in IT with regards to opinions based on registry cleaners. Do I? No, I don't despise them, but as I said, they are unnecessary and if used carelessly can render your Operating System a paperweight. So far, what I've said makes it sound like I despise registry cleaners. If we're being honest and straightforward here, cleaning the registry is an entirely unnecessary thing to do. Running your favorite registry cleaner every week? NOT GREAT. Clearing your browser's cache and cookies every week? Great, no harm there. Here's my take on cleaning or 'tuning up' the registry with any 3rd party software:įirst off, one big thing about registry cleaning is it is by no means and should not be a computer maintenance task. I can only use the 'one touch web acces w/out full boot up'. I should also include that I don't have a windows 7 installation disk.

So now I can only open the windows repair screen, so I can only use CMD and a repair that doesn't work, I tried restoring the back-up but yeah I couldn't, since the config dir went into one file. Then I found the thread about manually restoring the back-up and I did that, after doing so my Windows still didn't boot up and in safe mode instead of booting in safe mode I got the pop-up with something about login or logon something, sorry I don't remember the precise message, if I pressed 'OK' or the close button the pop-up reappears. The built-in startup repairĬouldn't repair it, I could only start it up in safe mode, I tried restoring the back up that AVG made before the clean up but it couldn't restore it, so for about 3 days I kept on working in safe mode (just using microsoft office and networking). Recently I've 'cleaned' my laptop with the AVG pc tune up program, It cleaned about 500+ Registry entries and more, it worked fine after the clean up butĪfter it got shut down it did not want to boot up anymore, it kept hanging on 'starting Windows' with the windows icon. So this is what I did before everything happened:

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