Registry Mechanic Review

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WillfromSF's Review of Registry Mechanic

2nd Apr 2008

Overall Rating

1.5 stars
  • Value for money
    0 stars
  • Ease of Set Up
    4.5 stars
  • Time Software Used
    Less than a Week
  • Ease of Use
    3.5 stars
Good Points

Easy to download and begin using. Shows a lot of detail Worked OK on version 5.


Bad Points

Caused system to crash and took 10 hours to reconfigure. No way to know which items are dangerous to mess with as far as I am concerned.


General Comments

I used to use Registry Mechanic 5 and it worked fine. I have no idea if it helped speed up my system but it didn't seem to hurt it. Then I changed PCs and went from Windows XP to Vista (Ultimate). Version 6 was marketed with language basically saying it would work in Vista, but was not designed for it, so I decided not to take any chances. Finally Version 7 came out (long after Windows Vista) listing Vista as totally OK. After paying for version 5, the upgrade cost and now an annual fee seemed a bit greedy, so I downloaded the sample version (which was supposed to be limited to one part of the registry) and put in my license number and went throug a scan and it found about 700 errors. So I told it to fix the errors and everything was OK. Then the next day the PC still booted fine, but about 15 minutes later it crashed. I was able to get into Windows in safe mode, but not regular. I restored to three earlier restore points and none would work. Finally I gave up and got some good tech service (from HP) where I had to take off all peripherals, re-boot and reinstall them one by one, and reset the BIOS settings to their original and that did solve the problem (created a couple of minor ones, but easy to fix). So I can't be sure it was the Registry Mechanic that caused the hard-to-fix crashing but I had made no other recent system changes so I have to think it was.

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