More thorough Registry scanning?

[Bikr]

First, let me start of by saying that I've been an Ace Utilities user for years and I am very happy with it.

But being an anal-retentive type, occasionally I'll try other registry cleaners to see if they find more invalid entries. I'll run them after doing a thorough registry clean with Ace Utilities, and see how many other issues they catch.

I just tried Uniblue's RegistryBooster and it found 104 more problems, 94 of which are categorized as "ActiveX, OLE, COM Sections". Just wondered if they're finding things that are dubious value deleting, or if Ace Utilities' registry cleaning has some room for improvement?

I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

[Aneesh]

Ace Utilities employs various safety measures for many of its tools so that your PC does not run into troubles due to any entry/file being removed. Over time, after feedbacks and suggestions from users who have tried out previous versions, we have set the tools to exclude various entries while scanning to avoid any possible issues afterwards. So, the total number of entries found *may* vary when compared to other tools.

It is recommend to run the Registry cleaner a second time if, in the first scan, the tool has found many errors, esp. those related to ActiveX and COM, because you may find a few more entries made invalid by the deletion of certain entries removed during the first scan.

Also, many entries are duplicated in almost all registry cleaners, so the actual number of errors found will be less. One need to be really careful when deleting entries from the ActiveX/COM section.

If you really want to live life dangerously, try scanning after disabling the 'Ignore list' for the Registry cleaner (Options > Registry Cleaner).