What's a good reg cleaner and defragmenter?

Question

The best free and safe one.

I meant registry defragmenter as well. I don't mean disk defragmenter.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

For MOST people and purposes, the disk cleaner and defragmenter that comes with Windows will do. Double-click My Computer, then right-click on C: (or whatever your hard drive is designated). On the General tab, choose disk cleaner; on the Tools tab, choose Defragment.

Windows' cleaner won't clean your registry, which can be a tricky thing to do. Be careful with any products that will do that.

Ccleaner is a fine cleaner that will do more than Windows' disk cleaner. Ccleaner will clean your registry (use "issues" in Ccleaner).

I don't know of a free defragmenter, but many offer a trial period free; diskkeeper is one, I tried it, it is OK but not enough better than Windows' defragmenter (in my circumstances) to get me to pay for it.

Answer 3

For the registry ccleaner, free at ccleaner.com This cleans the cache, and then fixes any problems with the registry

Answer 4

The Disk Cleanup and Defrag that is on your Operating System is really the best.
Go to Start, Acsessories, System tools.
The other thing I suggest is run Spybot Search and Destroy, and Lavasoft's Adaware Removal. (Free, or Shareware)
Don

Answer 5

Try this one (Abexo Registry Cleaner): http://www.download.com/Abexo-Free-Registry-Cleaner/3000-2094_4-10434887.html?tag=lst-0-2

Answer 6

Ccleaner is good and i find iobit smartdefrag works better than the one that comes with windows.

Answer 7

Try http://www.diskeeper.com/diskeeper/diskeeper.asp? for Diskeeper Lite

And http://www.ccleaner.com/update/?v=1.38.485&l=1033 for CCleaner I use this myself and it regularly shifts megabytes of temp files.