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Registry Mechanic Review

Product: Registry Mechanic
Price: $29.95
Company Info: PC Tools®
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Registry Mechanic review

Registry Mechanic is an excellent registry cleaner and system optimizer, with many additional features to back up the standard registry cleaning/fixing scanner. While it does not include as many options as large utility packs, it is an extremely effective tool when it comes to improving your system's performance.

Interface

The interface of Registry Mechanic is easy to use and pleasing to the eye. What's even more important, while even a complete novice can master it in a few minutes, Registry Mechanic is highly configurable, giving a lot of room to customize for professional users. Every important setting is always one or two clicks away and you can easily make Registry Mechanic behave exactly as you like.

Main features

Registry Mechanic is able to perform all typical registry cleaner functions, including finding/deleting/fixing unwanted registry entries, fixing missed DLLs problems, deleting/fixing empty links and many other common functions. It also comes with some other useful features that aren't so common among registry cleaners. These features include such things as the registry compressor/optimizer tool that improves the registry and allows it to run faster or helping the user find the best way of fixing a problem instead of automatically deleting it.

Another important part of the program is the fact that Registry Mechanic does not lead the user to the registry errors - a good thing if you're a novice. Instead, it shows you the path to the error, letting you make changes manually if you wish.

Safety

Registry Mechanic is relatively safe and it is difficult to cause any harm while performing registry cleaning, but it lacks a few useful features that could make the whole process much easier for the user. There is only a general backup/restore option, so if you've made a single mistake, you have to undo everything you've done since the last backup. Registry Mechanic has a basic threat assessment (high/medium/low priority), but since that's the extent of the information provided, it is often difficult to tell what you should do in case of specific problems - fix them, delete them or leave them alone.

Summary

Registry Mechanic is a reliable and easy-to-use registry-cleaning tool. While it is powerful, it is made specifically with novices in mind. The program is especially recommended to inexperienced users, but all professionals or computer geeks will also find it to be a very useful and flexible registry repair tool. Registry Mechanic fills a big hole in the world of registry cleaners. It seems that the industry trend over the last few years has been to build more complicated, more confusing utilities with safeties that can be turned off entirely. This leaves the novice computer user with no reliable and safe way to clean their registry, and with the growing amount of spam and baddies floating around cyberspace, this is a program everyone should have. If you've never cleaned your registry before, this is a good program to start with until you get your bearings and then, if you're comfortable, you can move on to other programs.

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