 | jv16 PowerTools 2009 - Registry Cleaner |
As the central information hub of your computer, keeping the computer registry in good order is absolutely essential. The Registry Cleaner analyzes the entire Windows registry, lists and can fix the erroneous, obsolete and unneeded items, which if otherwise left unchecked can seriously compromise the performance of your computer.
The Registry Cleaner of jv16 PowerTools is not just "a registry cleaner" but "the registry cleaner". The feature uses advanced stateful registry scanning technology which means it doesn't just scan the registry entry by entry but analyzes it as a whole.
Stateful registry cleaning
While competitive products consider each erroneous piece of registry data as an individual error, jv16 PowerTools' Registry Cleaner understands that there are usually dozens of registry entries and keys relating to a single registry error and thus they shouldn't be treated as individual errors. The development of this error link analysis has been very challenging, but it now allows jv16 PowerTools' Registry Cleaner to give you the best possible registry cleaning and fixing results.
The Registry Cleaner's link analysis goes even further, it also analyses how fixing or removing a single registry error affects the entire registry. For example, does it invalidate other registry data or does it fix other registry errors.
This holistic approach is enhanced even more by the Deep Analysis feature. Typically, a common registry cleaner scans only one time for errors, after all individual errors can only be corrected once. Not this one though. By parsing the registry a second time, another layer of of interdependencies is revealed and thus the quality of the registry cleaning process is greatly improved. Of course, this option makes the scanning part considerably slower, this is why you can disable it at all times.
Detects and fixes more registry errors
PowerTools' registry cleaner engine can also detect non-referenced registry errors. In plain English: If you install a software, for example WinZip but you don't like it and decide to uninstall it. Of course, the product's own uninstaller leaves something behind, as usual. While other registry cleaners might be able to detect and remove leftover data which have direct references to WinZip, such as a path (e.g. "C:\Program Files\WinZip\") or filename reference (e.g. "C:\Program Files\WinZip\WinZip.exe").
But jv16 PowerTool's Registry Cleaner can detect also leftover data that doesn't have any references, such as path or file references, to the software in question. This isn't magic but advanced software installation pattern recognition system. To this date we have installed thousands of different software to our test computers and detected patterns on what data they modify and add to the computer when installed and what they leave behind when uninstalled. This unique information was used to create the leftover software scanning module to the Registry Cleaner.
All this, and still easy to use
It all sounds very complex, doesn't it? Well... it is. But not for you. You can unleash this power with only a few clicks. It's as easy as downloading jv16 PowerTools and clicking the Start button.
Results window
The found registry errors are listed in categories for easy browsing through the list and for easy category selection. The Fix button first attempts to automatically fix the problem. If no solution is found the erroneous data is removed. The Custom Fix opens the Custom Fixing Tool (see the next paragraph), and the Delete button removes the erroneous data from the registry.
Custom Fixing
If you are an advanced user you can take full advantage of your knowledge and use the Custom Fixing Tool which allows you to decide which solution suggestions are the best for each of the found errors.
Other Features
- Includes 18 different registry scan methods which can all run at the same time
- A generic MRU list and history data cleaner can flush the privacy-threatening history data of hundreds of applications
- Finds obsolete file extension definitions, Add/Remove list entries, unused font declarations, left-over software entries, application paths, shared component definitions and invalid ActiveX and COM/DCOM registrations
The Registry Cleaner also contains a Scan Report feature which shows you information about the found errors and about the general health of your system.
Critical Importance. Safe to Use.
You simply cannot afford to make mistakes with the registry. The failsafes we have added ensure that such an occurence is almost impossible. If the tool is not sure whether a registry entry is erroneous or not, it does not display it, period. We have made this sound "safety first" principle the cornerstone of our product. Further still, each and every fix you make triggers a backup by default. This is why the Registry Cleaner feature is literally, right now, the best of its kind in the world and this is why jv16 PowerTools sits in a league of its own.
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