If your PC is getting slower, booting which took over 5minutes or more, opening applications become as sluggish as ever, this is a sign that your PC is not well maintained. Defrag your hard drive is a well known maintenance method to make your hard drive to access data faster. But one thing that many people overlooked is the Windows registry. Your Windows registry builds up lots of junk entries overtime. Things like uninstalling applications, registry hacks, incomplete installations, or even some incomplete downloads from the internet can cause the registry to piled up overtime. Fortunately, there are registry cleaner utilities which can help you to optimize and clean your registry with junk entries, but at a cost as it doesn’t comes free.

I found this freeware registry cleaner – Little Registry Cleaner. Currently at version 1.3.1, it was quite new and freshly developed from the open source community. Available for download here, it comes at 4.12MB which is quite small. One thing annoys me is the .Net framework which needed to be installed prior of the installation. I’ve already got the latest version of .Net framework but it still prompts me for installing. Well, maybe the open source people can take note of this.

When you have done installing the Little Registry Cleaner, just hit the “Scan registry” button and you are good to go, pretty easy and not much fancy stuff to mess with.

scanning the registry with junk entries in progress

I do encountered a bug while using this program. When the program has finished scanning the registry for problems, there will be a log file opened for “” online buy you in text format. The log file records a detailed listing of the problems in the registry. If you leave the log file opened, you won’t able to use the program at all as all you get is an opened program without the buttons like the one below. You’ll have to close this log file in order for you to continue the cleaning.

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a little bug in Little Registry Cleaner

This registry cleaner offers very basic registry cleaning for your Windows. It didn’t perform a deep scan of your registry for more problems like the one in Registry Mechanic. I’ve done a scanning using Little Registry Cleaner and I’ve got more than 80 problems reported. However, using Registry Mechanic, there are over 300 problems reported. It was such a big difference and I can’t complain much as this Little Registry Cleaner is free while Registry Mechanic cost me some bucks.

I would have to say this Little Registry Cleaner is not the most wanted registry cleaner. It was new and much improvement and fixes can be made from the open source community. But given the status as a freeware, why don’t give your PC a chance to clean up a bit of the Windows registry cluttered with unwanted entries. If you looking for a better (whole lot better actually) registry cleaner, look no further than Registry Mechanic at USD29.95 (thats over RM100 over here man ).

P.S: I’m a big fan of freewares, there are free antivirus, free hard disk defrag tool, free this and that…etc but non available for a good registry cleaner and optimizer. I’m praying hard for a freeware registry cleaner which can leave Registry Mechanic in the dust.

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