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Offline Lisandro

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David, I can't feel comfortable using a registry cleaner with a third party exclusion list, not updated and revised, and take decisions about which is safe, which is not... Windows registry is not a toy...
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I can't recall having a registry cleaner with an exclusion list external/third party or otherwise.

The fact is the external list isn't installed by default so there is no 3rd party exclusion list, you have to download it but first you have to register on that forum to be able to get it.

Which is exactly why I said regseeker isn't a novice tool to be played with as a toy, you can do serious damage with an overzealous approach to cleaning the registry.

Also lets not lose sight of what the exclusion list does should anyone choose to use it, it stops you removing things which might harm the system, so it isn't taking decisions on which is safe to remove it isn't taking any decision on removal but the opposite what shouldn't be removed. RegSeeker doesn't make autonomous removal decisions, like HJT is just presents the user with a list according to their settings, the user takes the decisions on what to remove.
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Will you use it?
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I already use RegSeeker, I have the very short exclude.lst that comes with the the program not the customised exclude.ini file, which as I said you have to register with that forum and download it, but for me I simply don't need it as I do the decision making on my system.

Using a third party list isn't much different from a number of other applications (not registry cleaners) like adblock plus and subscribing to different ad blocking lists, there are others comonly open source stuff that I can't recall from memory.
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Ok, thanks. I would like a build in exclusion list, tested, certified, as I don't want to mess with my registry.
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Does anybody know about WinUtilities as a registry cleaner?
Is the http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/winutilities-64/ of today.
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Does anybody know about WinUtilities as a registry cleaner?
Is the http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/winutilities-64/ of today.
It is probably a come on for the Full version at $49.99USD.

It may be good but there are Free registry cleanup applications that are just as good like Auslogics Registry Defrag and Free Registry Defrag:
http://www.download.com/Auslogics-Registry-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10678033.html
http://www.registry-clean.net/free-registry-defrag.htm


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It may be good but there are Free registry cleanup applications that are just as good like Auslogics Registry Defrag and Free Registry Defrag:
http://www.download.com/Auslogics-Registry-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10678033.html
http://www.registry-clean.net/free-registry-defrag.htm
They compact (defrag), but they don't clean :'(
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It may be good but there are Free registry cleanup applications that are just as good like Auslogics Registry Defrag and Free Registry Defrag:
http://www.download.com/Auslogics-Registry-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10678033.html
http://www.registry-clean.net/free-registry-defrag.htm
They compact (defrag), but they don't clean :'(
Have you tried them?

I'll spend $49.99USD on more useful things like rent and food.

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I'll spend $49.99USD on more useful things like rent and food.
Sure... It's only installed due to giveawayoftheday (it's free today).
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Tech, I use "WiseReg cleaner" and "WiseDisk Cleaner" Both work well for me. Hope this Helps. ;D

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Tech, I use "WiseReg cleaner" and "WiseDisk Cleaner" Both work well for me. Hope this Helps. ;D
Me too ;)
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