Good, halfway decent, or at least usable free registry cleaner for a Win 7 machine?

Arch

I mean the title pretty much says it all....any suggestions?

Tasteticle

CCleaner - I use it a lot and it also gets rid of a bunch of useless crap on your computer

Over

Seconding CCleaner.

TychoCelchuuu

Reinstall Windows or just leave your registry alone; unless you've got busted file associations or something, you don't need to clean your registry.

Sir Headless VII

CCleaner will do it and is fairly reputable. That said mr. Celchuuu is right in saying it won't get you much to clean out your registry.

Tav

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Reinstall Windows or just leave your registry alone; unless you've got busted file associations or something, you don't need to clean your registry.

This. So hard. You're more likely to do damage messing around in your registry than you are to do any real noticeable benefit.

TychoCelchuuu

Yeah, I'll rephrase it: you cannot fix anything in your registry unless you are fixing specific, rather obvious errors. Registry cleaners have only ever done two things:

(1) Nothing.
(2) Break computers.

Unless you want nothing to happen or you want your computer to break, don't run a registry cleaner.

Dehumanized

Plus since Longhorn, Windows does a lot to maintain a clean registry without any intervention...

Arch

Thanks guys!