ghacks Technology News

Windows Registry Cleanup Tool

microsoft windowsPowerTools Lite is a free software program to cleanup the Windows Registry and operating system. It is actually a lite version of JV16 PowerTools and currently in release candidate stage. The software has been designed with ease of use in mind. It suggests to perform a quick system scan at startup which will display the PC health and Registry health afterwards. It is unclear how this values are calculated and running the cleanup tool will have no effect on the values. The software comes with a basic and expert mode. Basic mode can be started with just one click and will scan the Windows Registry and locations to clean.

Expert mode allows a user to configure some of the scan rules before the scan is conducted. It provides access to four different configuration settings including a slider to change scan performance, words to ignore or search for and advanced options like removing all found errors automatically or ignoring entries that get recreated by the computer system.

windows registry cleanup

PowerTools Lite will display its findings in four different categories: Registry Errors, Registry Junk, MRU and History Data and Temp Files. It is possible to take a closer look at every entry and deselect some or all of them in the process. The actual items that have been found will display the location of the item, the severity and description.

The program can create backups on the user’s request. It will also suggest to create a backup before starting the cleanup.

Enjoyed the article?: Then sign-up for our free newsletter or RSS feed to kick off your day with the latest technology news and tips, or share the article with your friends and contacts on Facebook or Twitter.

Related Articles:

Registry Cleanup with RegDefrag
Registry Life, Clean, Optimize And Backup The Windows Registry
Device Driver Cleanup
Microsoft .net Framework Cleanup Tool
Windows Registry Repair



About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

Author: , Saturday May 16, 2009 -
Tags:, , , , ,


Responses so far:

  1. jolin says:

    No matter your windows system is XP or Vista, the easiest way to speed up your PC is have a tuneup360 in it; you can try the software “tuneup360″. My friends and I all use it, it’s seems really useful.

Leave a Reply   Follow Ghacks   Subscribe To Comment Rss

Subscribe without commenting

© 2005-2012 Ghacks.net. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - About Us