What is the BEST Registry Cleaner for Win 7 Ultimate or Pro 64 Bit version OS ?

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My Win7 install dates to Jan 2010, and has been 'imaged' over to my 'new' (two years old) machine.

In addition; both machines use different hardware - AMD cpu / Nvidia gpu to Intel cpu / AMD gpu.

Top that with another  system breaker alleged system breaker (or very popular myth) of old,  ;)

I have changed from the AMD gpu to Nvidia, and then changed back to the AMD when the Nvidia

had to be RMA'd, and then back to Nvidia again now.

No worries....

I may be none of the pros above, but as someone who plays a lot of system intensive games I've noticed

no degradation in performance with my Win7 install, and get the frame rates I expect from my system.

Sure, I may have seen some small degradation if I'd been a compulsive 'synthetic'

bench-marker, but nothing in real world gaming.

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Techies, IT Admins, Hackers, programmers all say the same thing: you should do a complete clean install of Windows every 6 to 9 months. If you don't, you will notice your system gets sluggish.

This is untrue.   None of the "Techies, IT Admins, programmers"  I know recommend a complete clean install of Windows every 6 to 9 months.

 I have systems that have been running for years and they are not sluggish nor in any way problematic.

hi you say: "Microsft does not recommend using a Registry cleaner"

But you recommend Registry software why on earth do you recommend such things but not recommend registry cleaner. There is something wrong there.  Microsoft has recommend a lot of registry software in the past why?

If MS recommended a lot of registry SW in the past, can you supply *1* URL that shows MS recommending a registry cleaner on any MS operating system in the past 15 years?  Just "1" ... I mean if there was "a lot", you should be able to find 1 URL w/MS recommending it.  If you can't, find even 1, maybe MS hasn't recommended any for quite a while.

The only think MS used to recommend was something to clean up old office software entries -- BUT with the arrival of Office 2000 -- PARTIAL (looking broken because they point to files that don't exist) registry entries have been used by MS's auto-installer to automatically install pieces of Office Software, *as needed*, so you didn't have to install the whole thing at once.  From that point on, MS stopped recommending any registry cleaners.   The ONLY registry tuning that has been recommended since then is something that dumps and restores the entire registry -- but that hasn't been available or recommended, that I know of, since Vista.  The benefit of doing that (dump / restore) was to compact your registry -- which is of minimal usefulness on today's computers.

Software publishers don't follow a standard when writing to the registry -- so how can a 3rd party cleaner know what is valid and what is not?

MS had SW interfaces that imposed standards, but most SW publishers wrote

their own and wrote directly to the registry in their own format and have been since Win9x.  There has been no way to police such actions -- so there is no way to know what to clean out.  There are no ownership tags nor creation dates in the registry.

It's like a dumb'ed down 'FAT32' filesystem -- no user info, and no date info -- only

security descriptors.  The registry doesn't have enough info in it to determine what

is valid and what is not.

Your computer sucks due to your poor maintenance and MS's aiding you in keeping it so.  That's why 64-bitOS's by default don't allow you to install your own drivers anymore -- and why some processes on win7 are normally not touchable by you -- MS is trying to create protected parts of the OS to add to stability and security -- and add to the ability to resist tampering and forging/counterfeiting (with rootkit infested versions).  It's slow going, since people still want compatibility, AND because a totally protected OS would make the PC into a "game console" by default (in the sense that you can only run binaries signed by MS)...

An option -- maybe linux?...  but it is going in a similar direction under corporate pressure.

Windows in all my years becomes bloated as time goes by. Techies, IT Admins, Hackers, programmers all say the same thing: you should do a complete clean install of Windows every 6 to 9 months. If you don't, you will notice your system gets sluggish. The Android OS works the same way on smartphones.  

Your computer sucks is nothing to do with the user, unless of  course the user didn't do a clean reinstall at the required interval.

If I had seen this url 8 weeks ago I would have kept my mail from MS. But that was 8 weeks ago when I did download Perfect Registry and since then my problem have been more and more difficult.  So after reading this I will never even trust MS when they recommend something for my computer.

Hi again. You want to put a finger on one Registry Cleaner MS recommend I already mentioned Perfect Regestry which I did Buy. That's one software to much if they say in other place they don´t  recommend that kind of software.