Is The Free Registry Cleaner My Anti-Virus Company Is Offering Any Good?
Is The Free Registry Cleaner My Anti-Virus Company Is Offering Any Good
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Is a free registry cleaner OK to use? And will it help your slow PC? Here is a past experience of mine
I've seen where a couple of anti-virus software programs are "giving" a "free" registry scan and repair to their users. The ones I know of are good legitimate companies with good to excellent virus programs. Now all anti-virus system are not good. And particularly the most common and oldest name is considered very poor by a large segment of the computer repair world.
If it is a good virus company then I would trust letting them run a registry scan as well. But remember, they are not in the registry business and are probably using this free scan and fix to promote their products. They have their reasons.
Most all registry cleaners will give you a free scan but to do the repair will require purchasing the software program. After all it is a business and they all want to sell you their product if you need and want it. (and some if you don't need it)
The registry scan and repair of these virus software companies maybe run during a virus scan that they typically do, or as a separate operation all together. But the results will be the same. At the end of the scanning process you will be asked to buy additional "Advanced Tools" or to upgrade your virus software and pay for it through that.
The test I ran with in the above pictures was run completely to its end and I let it correct the errors it found in the registry. After doing the repair the program stated that there were some problems that will require more attention and gave a link for me to click on. That link lead went to an "upgrade" page, at an additional cost.
After declining to buy the upgrade, I checked the the computer's performance and one particular issue this PC had. I could tell no difference in working speed nor had it corrected our initial problem even though the free registry cleaning had supposedly corrected hundreds of problems in this computer.
The only thing "free" was the time it took to run this "free" program. Hope this helps.