- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $24.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: May 18, 2003
- Total Downloads: 60,054
- Downloads last week: 2,806
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 9 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This program offers some helpful tools for keeping your PC's Registry spic-and-span, but its hands-off approach may not be ideal for less techinical users. Registry Doctor's main window prominently displays icons for all of its tools, which include a back-up utility, a defragmenter, and a cleaner. However, these options aren't readily apparent when you launch the application; you must first click a button in the right pane to access them. And although we appreciated the ability to resize the app to better view a list of detected junk entries, we still wish it could simply be minimzed to the system tray. In our tests, the defragmenter worked quickly and even showed us how much memory the process had freed. Scanning your PC for invalid Registry keys wasn't as quick of a process, but you can choose to include or exclude certain files types, such as fonts, shared DLLs, application paths, and ActiveX controls. Unfortunately, the program doesn't organize its scan results in a similar manner. And since it can't provide information as to whether a certain key is likely malicious or benign, we'd strongly suggest using the backup tool before removing anything. On the plus side, the app doesn't affect system performance when going about its business. More experienced folks won't mind Registry Doctor's shortcomings, but newer users can find a better solution.Publisher's description
From Samyak Inc. :Registry Doctor comes with Registry Files Backup and Restore, which avoids the chance of bad software installation and minimizes the chances of viruses. Registry Cleaner cleans and optimizes your Windows Registry and lets you undo the changes. Registry Defrager and Compacter builds a brand new Registry from the old one. It defrags and optimizes the Windows Registry for maximum speed.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 9 votes
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Registry Doctor 1.00
Cons: Keep away from this tool, it causes no end of problems. Believe me I've learnt the hard way, it destroyed my office settings.
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6 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: Registry Doctor 1.00
Summary: hurts Windows, crashed with some runtime error when repairing now I can't boot!!
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Registry Doctor 1.00
"This Piece of S--- crashed my computer. DO NOT DOWNLOAD"
Cons: CRASHED COMPUTER ON FIRST RUN
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Version: Registry Doctor 1.00
Pros: Great tool!
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Version: Registry Doctor 1.00
"40% DISCOUNT COUPON found yesterday"
Pros: My PC works much more faster after I used Registry Doctor forst time. So I dicided to buy it and I found 40% (!) discount here:
http://www.softprice.net/registry_doctor.shtmlCons: Nothing bad to say.
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