Uniblue Registry Booster - a rip off

[funguy07]

Thought you should know. THere's a product out there called Uniblue Registry Booster. I came across it on looking for a solution to a problem. They said it was free and would detect and fix registry problems. So I stupidly allowed them to go into my registry. But what they did was said they found 40 problems but could only fix 15 for free. They said I would now need to buy their software to fix the rest of the problems. Furthermore, they implied that if I didn't buy the software I could have problems resulting from them being unable to complete some processes for the 15 they supposedly did fix. Sounds like a major rip off and I thought you all should know about it. So far I really don't see that I have any added problems.

 

[KBear]

Search http://www.download.com/ for "Registry"

You can read user reviews for different programs.

found "Abexo Free Registry Cleaner 1" it is free, no clue if it works.

 

[funguy07]

Search http://www.download.com/ for "Registry"

You can read user reviews for different programs.

found "Abexo Free Registry Cleaner 1" it is free, no clue if it works.

The reviews were generally very favorable. Thanks for putting me on to this. I'm going to look into it further.

 

[rick dickulous]

I go to snapfiles.com, click on freeware, then Registry tools. My favorite is one called reg seeker, it has an excellent cleaner function. I only do this for friends though, I have been exclusively on linux now for 4 and a half years. I can do that because I'm a smarty pants!

 

[funguy07]

I decided to take the plunge and try Abexo. It found over 1000 registry problems but on deleting it only removed 94. So far I see no change in performance. Its possible my computer is running a little slower but I'll need more time to tell if that is true.

 

[funguy07]

Its looking more and more like there was no change in performance from the Abexo registry cleanup. At least it didn't seem to hurt anything.

 

[funguy07]

Strange!! - Since my last report I have rebooted several times. For whatever reason, I now seem to be getting better performance and fewer crashes. It would seem the only explanation for this is the Abexo Registry cleaner.