I are lookin' into it.

Hmmm... this appears to be only for the registry..... Ccleaner does SO MUCH more....... don't think I'll be changing anytime soon.

A cleaner registry makes for a faster computer.

Faster, less glitchy, and just plain cleaner.

Correct... sorry, I was caught up with the screenies and writing a CES article, Satrhan. Also reduces 'freezes' and crashes.

You're welcome. Yeah, it's the McDaddy of 'em. CCleaner is very safe, but Wise - wow... 'sock it to 'em' regcleaner and optimizer.... but does more, too.

Mine's working AOK, Uvah. Take a look at your Task MAnager and see what's eating up RAM. However, I did not discuss Disk Manager.... and didn't install it.

Do you have a restore point before the Disk Manager did its thing?

I learned my lesson with these reg cleaners when I had System Mechanic installed. These things can totally frak your PC. I prefer to stick with CCleaner. The 'free to download' ones scare me. You run it, it cleans some stuff, then tells you that there are 435 more errors it can clean if you buy the paid version. This one reminds me of Advance System Care  or Glary Utilities. I don't know enough about the registry and all to go messing with the heavy hitting cleaners. As Harry Callahan once said "A man's gotta know his limitations."

Tried it first on my Laptop running Win 7 home premium 64bit. Did a complete registry back up as well as system restore point. Ran the program, fixed all the problems that it said was safe to fix, applied the recommended optimizations and rebooted. Computer would not restart, just hangs at the starting windows screen. Multiple reboots give the exact same result. Booted into safe mode and restored the registry and the computer proceeds to start normally. Uninstalled immediately. This is why i keep my old laptop going, to test software like this. I cannot recommend this application purely on the results i got.

I used System Mechanic for months...and then it got me. How long did you test this?

Not trying to knock you...it's just that the registry is one area you don't want to muck up. Everyone's system is different with different drivers for each brand, chipset, etc. Some of these cleaners can delete that one file that you won't even know about because the effects happen slowly or in some cases on the next reboot.

This one may completely harmless. I was talking from experience with one that supposedly had good reviews and all. When my PC fragged, the IT guy who looked at it said he could tell I had been using something 'harsh' to clean the reg and all.

Some of these company's know they are making their product sound so wonderful and up to date and etc., by listing all the crap it can clean/do and there are folks who think they have to or need to clean all that stuff even when they don't know what the hell it is or does. Then they hire companies to promote their product and those companies will pay bloggers to promote it (Which Google recently had happen to them - Bloggers Were Paid To Write About Google Chrome) without even knowing what they are blogging about.

I had installed System Mechanic because a free version came on a disk from PC Magazine. No warnings. No 'be careful'. Just 'You WANT this. It's the best!" etc. etc. And it is still considered a good product but NOT for everyone.

Example :

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-file-cleaner.htm

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-registry-cleaner.htm

One year apart and the above site lists CCleaner AND Wise Registry Cleaner as the BEST FREE FILE CLEANERS. One article by the site.editor one by a contributor. Who do you believe? I'm sure there are more like this. And each article lists alternatives at the end of the article. WHY? If these are the best and FREE then why list others? Why the hell would I want the lower rated free alternative to the higher rated BEST (according to the writer) when both are freaking free?!?!

In his 10 Must-Have Free Downloads he lists CCleaner. I don't see Wise Cleaner even mentioned.

This is the kind of confusion I am talking about.

I would avoid System Mechanic, I've had nothing but problems with that program.

Wise does let you set a restore point before changing the registry, something you should do anyway.

I use the paid version Auslogics BoostSpeed to do this sort of work. So when I tried out Wise, I was surprised that not only it found a lot of errors that BoostSpeed didn't find, it also gave me a noticeable speed in the loading of my system. Had a WTF moment ...

Only have around 30days left on my subscription for BoostSpeed ... won't be renewing it

His review is three years old and they haven't written a word about it since (according to their search engine his review is the only thing they have posted on it in three years) and I find that odd in itself. They have had four articles on CCleaner in the past year, from the portable version to enhancing to a review last AUgust (2 of which are by Gralla) not to mention his list have 10 must have downloads.

I notice you can't select which drive you want to scan (that I can find). When you have dual boot/multiple drives, external drives...it scans them all. For the novice, like me, how do I know the stuff on my Vista drive it wants to delete even though I ran it from Windows 7 is safe to delete and won't screw up Vista? Why does it want to delete (safely it says) anything at all from my external drive? For the completely uninformed, there is no mention of this in their help guide and that person may just click fix for everything. A lengthier review of the product and a better description by Mr. Gralla may stop the uninformed from believing they have just found the wonder cleaner that can do it all on it's own.

"It identifies Registry entries that may be dangerous to delete, and those that are safe to delete, so you can distinguish between the two. It also lets you decide which entries to delete, and which to keep"

and then he adds

"For safety's sake, it can also back up your Registry before a scan, so that you can restore it, if the program causes any problems."

It should read 'we strongly and always recommend' backing up your registry when running software that is scanning it for files to delete and don't go picking files to delete unless you know what you're doing because that restore point can be deleted or cut off from you as easily as anything else.

His review seems lacking compared to other, more in depth articles and reviews. It's almost kind of a 'do this as favor to get them off my back' kinda review compared to his other articles (to speculate any further would be slanderous). That's just MHO.

Like I said, it may be harmless. It may run forever just fine on your PC or any. But it is a STRONG piece of software, akin to System Mechanic, and for someone who doesn't know what they are doing (like me 8 years ago with system mech) it can screw up your PC. He makes no note of that in his review.

Right.

And in my experience...my personal experience...system restore couldn't fix my registry when it got fragged. I ended up having to reinstall Windows. IMHO Gralla's review is very misleading and I believe he chose his words very carefully to convey a feeling that this product was harmless and any ill effects were easily reversible.