New Study Finds That Most Common Registry Cleaner Software Products Do More Harm...

New Study Finds That Most Common Registry Cleaner Software Products Do More
Harm Than Good

ORANGE, Calif., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Windows registry experts of
Macecraft Software have today released the final report of the in-depth study
of the 31 most-used registry cleaner products.

The study analyzes 5 critical aspects to the functionality of these software
packages: the product features, the installation process, the accuracy of
registry errors detection, the ability to fix these errors and the compliance
to uninstallation best practices.

The study shows that most of these products are more focused on finding junk
data rather than actual, serious registry errors. For example, in one of the
tests a serious error was manually introduced to the registry and only one
product found it, while most claim to fix registry errors.

An alarming trend was also detected in regards to the detection of false
positives. Many of these products (9 out of 31) routinely presented false
errors and that's even more concerning.

Regarding the inclusion of 3rd party software in the installation files, many
of these products also wanted to install a bundled software. What's
interesting is that some of the most popular products are to be found guilty
of such practices. Also it was found that many of these products (18 out of
31) do not follow the recommended practices and as a result many of the
products tested leave a lot of data behind after uninstallation, which is what
causes registry errors to be formed in the first place!

Mr. Faisal Habib from Macecraft Software explained what has driven the
creation of this report: "Initially the study was aimed to strictly determine
where our product stands in the market and obviously was intended to be
strictly used within our company. As the results began to pour in, however, we
asked ourselves: Why keep this to ourselves? Doesn't the public deserve the
same transparency and clear quality guidelines which we ourselves use? The
overwhelming response we received after releasing the first version of the
study proved that the public does more than deserve such a scientific report,
they actually need it. There is too much hype and marketing buzz words and not
enough cold, hard scientific data. That data is now available for everyone to
see."

The report can be viewed online at:
http://www.macecraft.com/registry_cleaner_comparison2/

About Macecraft Software

Macecraft Software is a leading provider of Windows registry and maintenance
utilities and is a privately held company with headquarters in Finland with
offices in Europe and USA. Macecraft products have been recognized by the
world's leading computer magazines as well as tens of thousands of computer
users, from helpdesk professionals to home users around the globe. Macecraft
Software's flagship product, jv16 PowerTools 2009, is available in all the
major languages. For more information, please visit http://www.macecraft.com/

For any queries, please contact Mr. Faisal Habib, Macecraft USA, Inc., phone:
714 928 9371.

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SOURCE Macecraft Software

Mr. Faisal Habib of Macecraft USA, Inc., +1-714-928-9371