RegCure registry cleaner software is very popular these days. However, many users keep asking if it’s a good registry repair tool for Windows Vista. In this article, we discuss our experience of running RegCure Registry Optimizer on a Windows Vista machine.

Hardware and OS used in our tests

We tested RegCure on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Core 2 Duo, with a genuine Vista Ultimate installed. This machine is pretty fast as it is, but we wanted to run RegCure on it to see if optimizing the Vista registry could make this machine boot and work even faster.

Is RegCure for the average user?

It is. RegCure’s user interface is very easy to understand and use. All the important features like scanning your registry for errors, performing registry backup, fixing the errors, configuring the program settings, and managing start up items are easily accessible.

How good is RegCure in detecting registry errors?

Most PC users know by this point that the Windows registry tends to accumulate a lot of junk the more you use your Vista. This explains the well-known fact that a brand-new Vista installation is significantly faster in the beginning, but gets slower and slower unless the registry is cleaned up at least once a week.

RegCure promises to easily discover and fix all registry errors so that your PC runs like new at all times. We’ll see if it actually keeps its promise and makes your PC run faster, but it sure does dig deep to uncover all possible garbage in Vista’s registry.

When we ran RegCure in auto-scan mode and told it to find all invalid items, RegCure detected 177 junk entries in our registry. This makes sense since the laptop had Vista installed for about 8 months, and we never did any registry cleaning.

Can RegCure make your PC or laptop run faster?

Before we scanned the registry with RegCure, we recorded the start up time of Vista, which turned out to be 2 minutes and 5 seconds. After RegCure fixed all errors, we took out our stopwatch again, and this time the machine took only 1 minute and 14 seconds to boot. An impressive 40% improvement!

Given the above results, we are pretty happy with RegCure, and will continue to test it on different flavors of Vista to see how well it performs.