Thread: Registry First Aid

REGISTRY FIRST AID'S interface is clean and easy to navigate, and the program includes a Registry defragger, a Registry searching tool, and a built-in automatic backup module. The only drawback is that Registry First Aid costs Rs. 1,200; the trial version lets you see everything the program does, and is fully diag¬nostic, but fixes only 14 entries at a time. Registry First Aid found 2161 faulty entries in a 20-minute scan, a high number that may be explained by the program's relatively liberal definition of what constitutes a faulty entry. We were comfortable with the way it listed problems, either by category or by safety level.



All of the entry issues that were safe to fix were automatically check marked, and we liked having to check the ones labeled 'Caution' or 'Extreme Caution' manually.
Most problems that Registry First Aid found were marked 'Delete the entry', but some had other choices. We could cut the invalid substring or, in some cases, repair the entry. Unfortunately, the program's Help function wasn't too helpful, so we opted to use the default. Most of the problem entries popped open my browser and conducted a Google search on that Registry key. Very cool, and ideal for determining whether a risky entry should be removed. Registry First Aid is about as good a Registry cleaner as you can get -unfortunately, you have to pay for it.