For those who still pine for the reviews of Asharif, he viewed the previous version 9.2 here. Despite the not so good final grade, the product seems to have good value elements to it. Link to the previous review is below.

Personally, I am loath to play with the registry unless it's with a well known chrome plated quality utility. So I am going to chicken out and not try it, mostly because I don't have a 'play' computer handy.

http://dottech.org/gotdreviews/15624/review-advanced-registry-doctor-pro-9-2/

Thomas S  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+84)

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Firstly, you never ever need to clean your registry. Never. It doesn’t matter how many hundreds of thousands of registry errors you have as they are almost always harmless – and there is absolutely no need to remove them. Generally speaking, people who say otherwise are either misinformed or as is often the case make money from selling registry cleaners.

Secondly, cleaning the registry will rarely make your computer run faster of crash less. In fact cleaning the registry will often cause problems, since almost all registry cleaners (and yes, sadly even today’s giveaway) mistakenly identify needed registry keys as being errors. Understandably, removing these keys can cause problems.

In the description for today’s giveaway it is stated “…and significantly improves the speed of computer loading and performance.”
As I said earlier this will very rarely be the case. Ask yourself this – do you really want to use software from a publisher that feels it needs to lie to it’s customers in order to increase sales?

If you really insist on wanting to clean the registry, use Auslogics Registry Cleaner as it completely free and unlike Advanced Registry Doctor, is smart enough to not want to remove needed registry data.

Roger  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+61)

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This is for the developer really.
Maybe your target market is the group that has enough computer knowledge to understand what the scan results mean and thus is able to decide which ones to allow it to clean and proceed, that's fair enough.
There is another market that you could target. Computer users who absolutely need there computers NOT TO CRASH and do not have time or a clue what to do if they inadvertently cleaned something they subsequently needed.
I am one of these. I would like a nice clean fast running computer but referring to your screen shot, I have no idea what "Shared dll entry --- MSXML3A.dll" means and if its missing or invalid, weather you program would replace it or delete it and stuff relating to it or what. So I can't use your program.
So what I am trying to say is I need results that say something that means something to me like say
"an entry that relates to a program called "bestjpg editor" that was uninstalled last june needs deleting" then it would be of use.
You guys write what you know but this guys for one don't understand.

DavidM  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+45)

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Well, personally I am very happy with the CCleaner which is free and besides registry cleaning does a very good job in cleaning the temporary files in the system.

steve  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+43)

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I pretty much agree with Roger (#9) above.
"Cleaning" your registry is seldom necessary. There MIGHT be times when you want to remove certain entries, but you really need to know what you're doing.

Improvements in the "speed" of your computer, if any, will be measured in microseconds. You're unlikely to notice the "difference". On the other hand, you will definitely notice a difference if you screw something up.

Johnny Cool  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+27)

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