

Many "registry cleaners" are either absurdly dangerous and some would hose a Windows install entirely. There, they are good, but useless if you need to dig deeper.

The usual uninstaller programs like Revo or Iobit are relatively worthless for "deeper" cleaning and removing as they are mostly for Desktop applications. My goal was to declutter my machine as good as I could, and I had a whole barrage of tools ready, namely "Patch Cleaner", "Installer Cleanup Script", as well as even some custom PowerShell scripts. I am familiar with uninstallers (Revo, Iobit etc.) and of course I have my fair share with so-called "registry cleaners", from JV16 to CCleaner to Auslogics to Youname it. In particular I had a hosed Visual Studio install (Visual Studio 14.0, but also Visual Studio 15.0) where I faced the absurd task needing to manually remove/uninstall the zillions of leftover components, namely SDKs and much more. I have a Win10 machine which over the years accumulated lots of stuff. Also, I have no relationship with that company who is making Wise Care

Likewise, I am fairly experienced with Windows and build PCs for a long time, so this may help with context. and I am otherwise not keen on so-called maintenance and PC speedup software. Most haven't been used in a year or more.HEAR ME OUT first! I know about the nonsense of "registry cleaners" etc. The rest play a "supporting role" and are nice to have. It's the first 2 proggies that see regular usage. Those are some tools (among many more) which are in my toolbox should I ever need them or want to look at something specific. And once I got something set up and working why change it?Īlternate stream view/delete from Nirsoft Because they tend to bloat up and add useless features. More and more as time goes on I update all these cleaning programs less and less. It's all a cut-n-dry routine at this point. I don't use anything too aggressive and I always check to see what is getting zapped - though not as much as when I first started. The end-goal of any optimizations I do is to save space and lighten the system load. Pretty much the same stuff I've been using for years.
