Advanced Registry Doctor Pro

Advanced Registry Doctor Pro is a feature-rich program developed to scan, optimize and fix problems caused to the Windows Registry. It primarily concerns users with some background in such tools.

The app's interface is professional-looking. Upon deployment you can run a scan on the computer and select the method between Smart System Scan, Quick Scan and user-defined mode.

Advanced Registry Doctor Pro goes through the application paths, uninstall, ActiveX and COM, help files, file extensions, fonts, most recently used files, shared DLLs and folders, startup information, virtual device drivers, MS-DOS program shortcuts, along with sound and app events sections of the Registry.

When the scanning job is done, you can view the category, danger level and statistics for each found problem. Fixing this issue can be done by pointing out which items you want the program to take care of.

Additional features of the app let you schedule a task, defragment the Registry and back up system data; the latter option is highly recommended, just in case Windows starts experiencing errors after modifying the Registry.

You can manage entries which automatically run at system startup and perform a quick optimization job (e.g. automatic boot disk, disable tracking of broken shortcut links, optimize the system cache size). It is also possible to undo the last repair or to roll back the optimization, protect your PC against a custom list of malignant ActiveX items, and to view the repair history.

Advanced Registry Doctor Pro supports multiple languages for the interface, includes user documentation and needs a low amount of system resources. We have not come across any errors in our tests and the app did not hang or crash.

There's also a compact version available, called Advanced Registry Doctor Lite. Unlike the professional edition, it does not let you schedule tasks, back up, compress or defrag the Registry. To sum it up, Advanced Registry Doctor Pro is a pretty resourceful application as far as the Windows Registry is concerned, and it should please most power users.