Little Registry Cleaner Portable Edition

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on December 23, 2009

Little Registry Cleaner Portable Edition provides a simple tool for eliminating waste files and speeding up your computer. It scans your computer just like a virus scanning program, but this program sniffs out obsolete and unnecessary files instead. Its easy-to-use layout and fast results made this an exciting and helpful utility. It's free and completely portable, too: Install it on a USB flash drive and use it on any PC.

Little Registry Cleaner's interface is surprisingly simple to operate, thanks to its limited command options. The portable edition's simplified menu helps keep the focus on the program's main task, scanning and cleaning your PC's registry. Our test scan took roughly one minute and showcased all potential problem files on a long list. We were able to handle each issue individually, which usually meant simply deleting the item, but you can also have the program automatically handle them all, which can be risky if it deletes files you actually want to keep. After cleaning, our PC was definitely faster and more responsive, though it wasn't a massive improvement. The program also offers an interesting feature that can restore any item it fixes in case it makes a mistake. This was a nice security feature that helped us feel more confident about using it. Overall, this was a smooth, helpful way to clean out unnecessary items from your computer.

Little Registry Cleaner Portable Edition is freeware. It comes as a compressed file. We love this program's portability and effectiveness and recommend it.

 

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Publisher's Description

From Little Apps:

Little Registry Cleaner is an open source program designed for Windows Registry. Its purpose is to remove obsolete or unwanted items that build up in the registry over time in order to improve the stability and performance of your computer. These items may include un-needed or inaccurate entries left behind by incomplete uninstall routines (known as "Software Rot"), application program errors, and even misapplied registry hacks. Problems also come up when users transfer or delete files without realizing that dozens of Registry entries aim to the old location.

What's new in this version: Version 1.5.1 features the following improvements:

• Fixed bug when trying to create scheduled tasks on Windows Task Scheduler 1.0 (Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003)
• Fixed bug that prevented LRC from closing if DeskMetrics was disabled
• No longer displays bug report when trying to contact DeskMetrics with no internet connection
• NsisDeskMetrics plugin no longer requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package to run
• Fixed several o... See all new features

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