Clean your registry and junk files with WiseCleaner

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Clean your registry and junk files with WiseCleaner

by Brad Linder Nov 28th 2007

It's amazing how much junk your PC accumulates just by running for a few months, or even days. Perform a fresh install of Windows, add a few programs, remove a programs, and you'll see what we mean. Even if you only run a few applications, odds are you're storing a lot of unnecessary information in a cache file somewhere.

Wise Disk Cleaner and Wise Registry Cleaner are two easy to use freeware solutions for cleaning out the cobwebs. As the names suggest, one application helps find and fix incorrect registry settings while the other helps delete temporary files stored on your PC.

While we've long been fans of CCleaner, Wise Cleaner is highly customizable, allowing you to search for just certain temp file types. In a highly unscientific test we ran a few minutes ago, Wise Disk Cleaner found about twice as many removable files as CCleaner using the default settings on both programs.

[via jkOnTheRun]

Tags: ccleaner, wise-disk-cleaner, wise-registry-cleaner

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

BillyG said 10:30PM on 11-28-2007

I saw that in Technet too, and had the same results as you. I'm sure it shocked the CCleaner guys too!

Joe said 10:31PM on 11-28-2007

Now make the two (Wise Registry/Disk Cleaner) into one, and you have a CCleaner convert...

RP said 8:20AM on 11-29-2007

Nice, but the UI need some work:

In the list control, I can't ctrl-click to select multiple items, then check or un-check them. This is a royal pain.

Also, using the keyboard to down-arrow thru the list ctrl keeps changing focus to the details window, so I can't do down-arrow to see the next item details, then Space to select it. Just a pain to use -- seems like a common thing to want to do.

For bonus points, why not list the brief details (eg: "File does not exist" or "Folder does not exist" or "Type library not registered" in the list ctrl, so I can sort by this, and delete specific types of problems within a category?

(Sorry, I'm not brave enough to blindly do a "Fix All". I tried that with a different reg cleaner, and hosed my machine, and had to restore.)

Thanks!

Ripdog said 8:20AM on 11-29-2007

Ugh, is pretty ugly. Unlike most Mac apps.
And it fixes a problem only windows somputers have. Unlike macs.

MOD THE POOR APPLE FANBOY DOWN, PEOPLE!

naser said 8:24AM on 11-29-2007

But is it wise enough to skip through important system files/registry entries? Anyone who've used it care to confirm?

I've used a lot (and I mean a lot) of such "cleaners" before. But only CCleaner has so far been able to securely delete only the "junk" components in my system, not the vital ones. So is this "WISE CLEANER" a patron of the same protege?

GoOrange said 9:01AM on 11-29-2007

I'm with Naser on this one. CCleaner is the only program that I've used that has worked safely for me. Every other program I've tried eventually deletes a critical registry entry and crashes the system.

I've been trying out the free Glary Registry Repair program which seems nice, but I'm afraid to just let it clean everything on it's own. Instead I go through every entry manually and only delete those that I know are safe. This is just too time consuming to be practical. CCleaner remains the only program I can just click and run without having to worry about deleting a vital entry.

Dan McD said 9:55AM on 11-29-2007

I've been using both of the Wise Cleaners, Registry and Disk successfully for months now on several computers. I have yet to run into any issues from running the Wise software on Xp and a Vista machines. It has dramatically done a great job, and I'd recommend the programs if you haven't been happy with your own cleaner program. They do update it often, seems once or twice a month, so they do a good job supporting the program ,and keeping it up to date.

sleazy said 3:29PM on 11-29-2007

There are only 3 registry cleaners i trust: CCleaner, Jouni Vuorio's RegCleaner & EasyCleaner.

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