Registry First Aid Review

Quick Regestry scan & Fix

Submitted by potga9 on Mon, 2009-03-09 23:30.
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The lowest price: 27$
You can buy it at RegNow for that price.
Pros:
fast, easy navigation of function menus, great view of search results.
Cons:
defrag of registry slow, poor top menu design
Review:

Functionality:
Registry Maintenance:
- Check registry for errors
- Defragment of registry

Registry Management:
- Search the registry
- Registry Snapshots

Registry Backup:
- Create Full registry backup
- Restore registry from full backup
- Restore from .reg backup files

Registry Maintenance:

- a scan of the registry proved to be quick, fast and easy to start.
- whilst doing a defragmentation of the registry takes some time to analyze and is very slow, freezes notebook for 20 seconds.

Registry Management:
- personally i think the registry search feature is very cool, makes searching the registry easier and gives a complete overview of search results as to the standard microsoft registry search (ctrl+f).
- being able to take snapshots of the registry is a neat function, as we can compare a working registry to a faulty registry during software development.
- also an easy way to revert back to a working registry if it does get corrupted.

Registry Backup:
- nice wizzard driven backup and restore process
- gives warnings if certain criteria for registry backup isn't met, like system restore must be switched on and will not continue if it's off.

Look & Feel:

- menu design of the software looks like a badly designed website, no effort into top menus
- Function menus are big, and easy to see and use.
- Would prefer a tips window, or get started popup window, rather than the help file opening on launch of the application.

Conclusion:

Well having used some other registry software previously, most of the functions are the same and other software might offer a bit more features for a bit cheaper or even free.