Lavasoft Registry Tuner

The Windows Registry is a common source for numerous problems, which may occur more often that you would like, if you neglect to clean it up. Making changes manually in the registry is not a safe course of action, but you can use specialized applications to prevent any damage. Lavasoft Registry Tuner can scan your registry files and remove any broken or obsolete items. It can also find and eliminate temporary data on your hard drive and back up the registry or part of it.

Lavasoft Registry Tuner is not free, but unlike other registry cleaners out there, this one actually allows you to fix any problems you find or remove temporary data from your hard drive. Downloading and installing the software should not take more than a minute. You can use it on Windows XP, Vista, Win 7 and Win 8, without sacrificing too much disk space, RAM or processing power.

The software allows you to prepare and execute several operations, on different tabs, on its user interface. Instead of displaying large and colored warning signs, Lavasoft Registry Tuner places everything you need to clean your computer right in front of you. You can target specific registry sections, like Start menu entries, application paths, shared DLLs, file associations and many more. All sections are selected by default, so if you wish to scan everything in the registry, you only need to hit the Scan button, located in the lower right corner of the interface. After a quick scanning process, the application will display a list with the found issues and you can fix them right away, with a single click.

A hard drive cleanup process can be prepared on a different tab. You can set Lavasoft Registry Tuner to scan for temporary files, cookies and Internet explorer history data. Additionally, the software allows you to target entire disk partitions. Inclusion and exclusion lists can be compiled in the same section of the interface, on separate tabs. Just like the registry scanner, the hard drive cleaner will display all the temporary data it finds and you can remove them just by clicking a button.

Lavasoft Registry Tuner comes with its own applications uninstaller. Besides removing an installed application, Lavasoft Registry Tuner will also scan for any leftover data, from that application, which can be removed like any temporary files.