Registry Care

This program offers useful tools for keeping your computer's Registry free from errors, but nothing that makes it stand out from a host of others within the category. Registry Care's well-organized interface offers six menu options to access tools and settings. Aside from the Registry scanner, the program includes tools to manage IE plug-ins, start-up programs, and installed programs. In testing, it's easy to select areas such as application path, COM objects, and shared DLL entries for scanning, and the results are rapidly produced but repairing the errors requires purchase. Though RegistryCare's other tools mostly duplicated standard Windows utilities, they were easy to use. You also can create and restore backups to safeguard against unwanted changes. This application offers the standard tools included with nearly all Registry cleaners, but it works well and is easy enough for anyone to use.