 Registry mechanic dialogue
Tuesday, 13 December 2005
If you’re running one of the many flavours of Windows, you would have noticed that the more software you install, the slower your computer seems to get. A good system registry cleaner is an indispensable tool to keep your system running as it should.
After trying several different alternatives, I eventually settled on Registry Mechanic, a few months ago.
First of all, this is an excellent piece of software. It does the job very well. Furthermore, how refreshing to own a program which allows me to upgrade major versions (4 to 5) without paying extra money.
The only criticism I have of the software is one relating to the user interface experience. The “registry optimiser” component, as the name suggests, optimises and compacts the registry. Once the optimiser finished it’s thing, it presents a dialogue which presents this choice to the user:
Ok, so I have to restart the computer in order to “finalise” the optimisation process. Fair enough. So why am I presented with only a “Yes” button in this dialogue? Based on the prompt, having only the choice of “Yes” seems kind of silly, doesn’t it? Shouldn’t there be a “No” button as well? Either that, or the dialogue shouldn’t be asking a question. It should just state that the computer needs to be restarted and offer an “Ok” button instead of “Yes”.
Still, great software. Despite the dizzy dialogue.
EDIT: I just upgraded to version 5.1 today (Thursday, 05 January 2006) and PC Tools have altered the dialogue to now show this prompt instead:
How’s that for listening to your customers?
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