gHacks technology news » cleanup tool http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:33:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Windows Registry Cleanup Tool http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/windows-registry-cleanup-tool/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/windows-registry-cleanup-tool/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 16:58:15 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/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.

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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.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/windows-registry-cleanup-tool/feed/ 2 Microsoft .net Framework Cleanup Tool http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/02/microsoft-net-framework-cleanup-tool/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/02/microsoft-net-framework-cleanup-tool/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:59:55 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8658 The Microsoft .net Framework is being used by a wide variety of software applications. Microsoft made the decision to provide the different .net Framework versions as separate installations. This effectively means that someone who installs the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 on his computer will automatically install the previous .net Framework versions as well for backward compatibility.

It can happen that the uninstallation or repair of a .net Framework installation fails which can have the effect that a new installation wont succeed either. Manually removing the leftovers to be able to install the framework anew is a complex process.

A far better solution would be to run a cleanup tool that will remove all traces of the Microsoft .net Framework from the computer system.

Aaron Stebner’s (via Raymond) Microsoft .net Framework Cleanup Tool is that software program. The portable application scans the computer system for installed .net Framework versions.

It will display them in a list with the option to uninstall a specific .net Framework version or all of them from the computer system. The software developer points out that his application should be used as a last resort if the regular installation or uninstallation of the Microsoft .net Framework fails on the computer.

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