General PC maintenance

[Aada]

I was browsing Dell.co.uk and saw their PC performance scan i have never downloaded one of these from anywhere as well how trustworthy is the scan?

Anyway i downloaded this and it came up with like 1007 registry errors, how important is it to clear these errors? tbh i have never bothered with this ever while using PC's, once a week i do a defrag and use MS security essentials full scan/disk cleanup.

Is that enough or should i be taking note of these 1k+ errors? if so what should i download? there's so many registry cleaners out there i don't know which to trust, i've read things like you need to know what your deleting or it can fuck your system up.

Any tips?

 

[Madmaxx]

 

[Influenza]

They try to get you to pay £24.99 for the software to fix them , i doubt theres anything wrong with your registry , even if there is i wouldnt be bothered if all my programs are working fine.

 

[Aada]

Ok cheers for the heads up won't bother then!

 

[Embattle]

Most reg errors are links to old deleted file locations, use something like http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner if you really want to.

 

[PLightstar]

Yeah like Embattle said, use ccleaner. That and their defraggler are great tools for clearing some of the rubbish collected by your PC. Also would recommend Spybot Search & Destroy to search for any Trojans or Worms hiding in your system, that your anti-virus won't pick up.

 

[Aada]

Appreciate the tips thanks guys

 

[Olgaline]

Ccleaner !