Spare-Flair
Supreme [H]ardness
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I tried CCleaner and it did an okay job but QuickSys Registry Cleaner is what I ended up using instead. It did a much better job. I got QuickSys from http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ actually.
Very thorough, good interface, clearcut explanations of everything, and it found about 1000 errors more than CCleaner.
Look, I am just one of those stubborn people who refuse to format and believe that I can fix everything if I spend enough time at it. I am adept at fixing windows rot and I can spot malware doing something from a mile away. Man, I just saved this system from a Virus.Win32.Virut (encrypts every exe on your system it gets its hands on replacing them with corrupted versions of itself, corrupts your ntldr, your boot.ini, etc.) which most people simply give up and format when they encounter that. I like and enjoy doing this. I spend more time tinkering with windows than playing games in the past month.
Nothing more satisfying than windows bluescreening so badly you can't even get into safemode...and then somehow reviving that system and seeing it load again after you've replaced all the core windows files by hand! Windows Repair? Don't need it. System Restore? I just do it myself! (goto the system volume information folder, grab the registry hives from inside the restore point snapshots manually)
Anyway, thanks for the tips, I will keep CCleaner around but I've found a few more programs that were much better than it.
Very thorough, good interface, clearcut explanations of everything, and it found about 1000 errors more than CCleaner.
Look, I am just one of those stubborn people who refuse to format and believe that I can fix everything if I spend enough time at it. I am adept at fixing windows rot and I can spot malware doing something from a mile away. Man, I just saved this system from a Virus.Win32.Virut (encrypts every exe on your system it gets its hands on replacing them with corrupted versions of itself, corrupts your ntldr, your boot.ini, etc.) which most people simply give up and format when they encounter that. I like and enjoy doing this. I spend more time tinkering with windows than playing games in the past month.
Nothing more satisfying than windows bluescreening so badly you can't even get into safemode...and then somehow reviving that system and seeing it load again after you've replaced all the core windows files by hand! Windows Repair? Don't need it. System Restore? I just do it myself! (goto the system volume information folder, grab the registry hives from inside the restore point snapshots manually)
Anyway, thanks for the tips, I will keep CCleaner around but I've found a few more programs that were much better than it.
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