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As a fan of “local” gadgets such as date, time, and drives, I am anxious to hear the author’s response to leaving such gadgets active. I have been using them since W7 came out with no troubles at all. Gadgets such as “Weather Bug” that communicate to the web are obvious potential problems; however, I hope non-communicative gadgets are still OK.

Also, how about Google “Gadgets” that run in the browser. Are they “sandboxed” in Chrome or do they also leave you open to attack?

Having tried several Registry cleaners over the years, I have found that a thorough cleaning requires running the program multiple times (with reboots in between) to find and remove all errors the software is capable of correcting.

On your recommendation, I purchased JV Powertools. Not having the time or resources to test as thoroughly as you have, I ran it several times until it found no more errors, then ran the free program, Baku. Baku found even more errors in the registry. A month later, I reversed the process, running Baku first until error-free, then JV Powertools. Powertools found no additional errors when following Baku. From this simple exercise it would seem that Baku performed better, but perhaps not. Please consider testing Baku when you get a chance. I’d love to learn your results.