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[Lamplighter]

Please help a MacAddict with a HP-PC issue...

My daughter's PC is starting up with a program "UniBlue Registry Booster 2012"
It seems to be scanning for errors in files, much the same way Norton Utilities does on a Mac.
It reports it found 480+ errors, and asks if I want to fix the errors, but to fix all of them it requires me to purchase the program.
A quick surf of the net finds a review making it seem like a legitimate product... but with some issues.

Is there another (free) way to fix such errors - if they are real ?

Because it goes into scan mode each time the computer is booted up, Is there a way to get rid of this program ?

[xoxoxoBruce]

We have reviewed RegistryBooster through previous versions and it has never failed to do what it claims to do and has never harmed the PC. For that reason, RegistryBooster 2012 gets an honorable Brontobyte on a scale of Bytes to Brontobytes and is a recommended registry repair and optimization utility.

From http://www.whatsabyte.com/P1/RegistryBooster_2012.html

[Lamplighter]

Thx XOB... is there a (free) alternative ?

[xoxoxoBruce]

http://www.internet-khazana.com/blog...-license-keys/

She may have a free trial going, also.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

My daughter's PC is starting up with a program "UniBlue Registry Booster 2012"...
It reports it found 480+ errors, and asks if I want to fix the errors,

That program was downloaded by techniques also used by malware to infect a computer.

Second, the 480 errors are mostly irrelevant. Mostly exist because of point three.

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Microsoft sucks. One program left behind about 1000 various registry items.

Microsoft does not do that. The uninstaller is created by the program manufacturer. He will often leave behind undeleted fragments. Either intentionally or due to no reason to be hygienic. Since you will never know, then why should he pick up the trash?

So, third, many if not all 480 errors are traceable to programs that do not clean up after themselves when removed.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by tw

That program was downloaded by techniques also used by malware to infect a computer.

Second, the 480 errors are mostly irrelevant. Mostly exist because of point three. Microsoft does not do that. The uninstaller is created by the program manufacturer. He will often leave behind undeleted fragments. Either intentionally or due to no reason to be hygienic. Since you will never know, then why should he pick up the trash?

So, third, many if not all 480 errors are traceable to programs that do not clean up after themselves when removed.

I should have been more clear, "one Microsoft program left behind over 1000 registry items"
Don't ask me which one, it was a long time ago.