Are Windows XP process/registry cleaners worth the money?
I am confused because there seems to be an equal amount of blog enrties for them as against them.
Sometime in the last 30 days my machine began using 100% cpu at startup for about the first 7 minutes and it is because of the svchost.exe (of whick I now have 8 listed in the task manager).
After reading a lot of blog entries, I don’t know what to do?
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I can’t answer about the Process cleaners because I control the processes that are running by the programs that start at boot up. You can do this as follows.
A major cause of a slow PC is programs that are running in the background. Here’s another really good Microsoft tool. Go to Start > Run > type in msconfig in the box and click OK.
This will bring up a window with several tabs at the top. Click on the “Startup” tab. It will list the programs that are running on your PC and eating up resources. Look them over carefully and turn off any that don’t absolutely have to be running. Simply click on the “check mark” in the little box beside the program name. Clicking on it will remove the check mark. Once you have edited the Startup list, click on Apply and then on OK. Once you have exited the window, reboot your PC for the settings to take effect.
WARNING: Don’t go into the other tabs and start deleting things. You will probably give yourself major headaches if you do that. Stay focused on the Startup List only.
Regarding the Registry Cleaners, yes they work and it is necessary to maintain your registry. Lot’s of people don’t realize that a PC requires maintainence to keep it running efficiently. The hard drive gets badly fragmented and the registry gets poluted with partial and obsolete entries simply from everyday activity on your PC. I’d recommend a reg cleaner very strongly and you should run it at least once or twice a week. There are several available for free at http://www.download.com or http://www.zdnet.com I bought Registry Mechanic and use it religiously.
Hope this helps.