Here’s some useful information gleaned from GiveawayOfTheDay comments on a  recent offer:

First clean the Registry of your machine using award-winning freeware like “Auslogics Registry Cleaner”, “(Portable) Wise Registry Cleaner” and/or (Portable) CCleaner + CCEnhancer

And combine them with “Registry Trash Keys Finder” for more advanced Registry junk cleaning.

Then, to defrag your cleaned registry, just use one of this FREE APPS ki$$ing your wallet goodbye for good:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Pagedefrag.shtml
http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/advanced_system_tweaker.html (==> only for bloody geeks like me…LOL!)
http://www.winmend.com/registry-defrag (==> New Giovannni’s entry)
http://www.puransoftware.com/Registry-Defrag.html
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/Quicksys-RegDefrag.shtml
http://www.registry-clean.net/free-registry-defrag.htm
http://www.simnetsoftware.com/products/simnet-registry-defrag.html
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/Baku.shtml

Finally, once you have finished to optimize your system, you can even test for FREE your PC performance (CPU, RAM, HDD, 2D Graphics, 3D Gaming Graphics etc…) to find out its real speed, so as to make sure that it’s running at its top speed!!!

* AUSLOGICS BENCHTOWN
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Auslogics-Benchtown.shtml

Screenshots:
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Auslogics-Benchtown-Screenshot-192889.html

* QwikMark
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/QwikMark.shtml

Total cost of the entire PC maintenaince operation ==> 0 $/€

Stable freeware’s from reliable developers.

Auslogics Registry Defrag
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-defrag/

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