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In terms of registry cleaners, Uniblue’s Registry Booster application is one of the stalwarts of the software sector. In this article, we’ll cover the 2010 edition to see what standout features and functionality it has to stay competitive.

The first notable fact about the new product is that it support for Windows 7, which is surprising mainly due to the fact that many other registry cleaners have not yet managed to do this. Thankfully, the download size of the application seems to have been reduced, which probably implies that some extensive re-work on the application has been done since the previous version.

Once launched, the program is as user friendly to use as previous editions which makes it quite capable for both beginners to use, and also advanced users. The product does come with a free scanning report which provides a traffic light signal (red meaning severe registry issue). This is a neat little feature which lets you assess the severity of the problems which are registry before committing to a purchase.

Running the application to do the repairs should only take a few minutes and it is generally advisable to restart your computer after doing so. On my computer it was able to find a couple of dozen medium severity files relating to redundant registry key settings, but nothing too severe.

As with all these products, providing value-added features or functions is essential to giving the product a little bit of gloss and attraction. Registry Booster comes with a registry backup feature which really should be essential in these types of tools. This allows you to maintain archived versions of your Windows registry file and functionality to restore these if an error should core (e.g. registry corruption after a virus).

In addition, the registry defragmentation feature is another nice to have utility to reorganize key settings to optimize file access times. This will be particularly effective on older PCs which have built up a large amount of key settings.

Registry Booster from Uniblue is still a very competitive registry cleaner utility and it is good to see that they are sticking to the core functionality in their product, rather than trying to augment the tool with various disk cleaning utilities. It measures up favorably to online computer scan utilities like Reimage and still manages to effectively optimize your registry.

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There are many competing registry cleaners available these days so Windows XP Repair has its work cut out to stay current and maintain the 3 million customers it already has. This review looks at the 2010 Pro version to see what’s new and improved.

The Windows XP Repair is available as a small download and install executable which, after installation, proceeds to pull down from their servers a dynamic list of system/registry checks that the program is to run. As new computer are found, this database continuously is being added to.

Novice users will no doubt use the simplified scan for fixing computers registry issues in one single click of a button; the program uses a number of default scans to run that will catch out the bulk of system faults you may experience.

Advanced users will still get a kick out of running the additional scans provided and these are well detailed in the provided documentation.

Some value added features in the new product look like they have maybe been put in to compete with what others (e.g. RegEasy, RegCure) are doing. The best features are the automated registry back, and its associated recovery centre, along with the registry defragmentation tool (invaluable on older PCs where the registry can become many megabytes in size which slows down key access speeds).

However, the anonymous internet feature, disk cleaning tool and the start-up programs administrator feature all seem a little out of place with the product’s core functionality. Users should be buying the product because it fixes the registry well. That said, it is nice having these PC maintenance tools in one spot (rather than the several freeware options that many users would most likely have already).

Windows XP Repair is one of those solid, reliable tools that are definitely worth having in your PC maintenance toolkit. The recovery centre/backup tool alone can help resolve a vast number of system failures and blue screen exceptions.

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