Is Norton's registry cleaner suitable to remove any operating system problems?

2 thoughts on “Is Norton's registry cleaner suitable to remove any operating system problems?”

1. Scrawny says:

   February 10, 2011 at 4:20 am

   If you don’t know what you are doing, registry cleaners can do more harm than good.

   You don’t say what problems that you are having with what operating system on what kind of computer. The problems may or may not be related to the registry.

2. Michael V says:

   February 10, 2011 at 4:20 am

   Absolutely. No one solution will fix all of the possible problems that your machine may be having, especially when that machine is running Windows. Other options that may help would be running a boot time antivirus scan, scanning for spyware, and defragging your hard drive. I would perform them in that order as well, and I would not use Norton. For the antivirus I would use Avast, and I would recommend installing it either in safe mode and scheduling a boot time scan, or the even more sure option of adding a small partition to your hard drive, installing some flavor of linux (such as Ubuntu), and then installing Avast on that partition and scanning from there. This will allow you to scan without Windows ever loading, which prevents any viruses you have from interfering with the scan process. After that I would boot back into Windows and install Super Anti Spyware and let it run it’s course, and then I would schedule and run the disk defragment utility that comes with Windows.

   If after all of that you still are not running right, then I would consider installing HijackThis, which will give you log files you can share with others for diagnosis, and request for help in the BleepingComputer forums.

   I hope this helps.

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