Registry Easy | Clean Registry

When a Windows computer has been used for some time it tends to slow down,freeze sometimes and occasionally even crash completely. It may take months or years depending on how much you use your machine but it will happen.

Why is this so? The reason is nearly always a corrupt registry which has become bloated with data and useless files. Every time you install or uninstall a program incompletely, fragments of the program will remain in the registry causing it to become choked with data after some time.

The registry is something which all Windows PCs have. It is basically a database of entries which the operating system uses to run the machine. When it becomes bloated with too many fragments of data the operating system has to find its way through all the excess entries to locate the data it needs to run the computer and programs. This causes a very noticeable slow down and balkiness in the operation of the machine.

The only way to correct this problem is to remove all the unwanted data entries from the registry. All windows PCs have a function called Regedit which is intended for just this purpose. You can access Regedit by clicking START-RUN then typing Regedit in the box. When you are ready to start using Regedit you must first back up your registry so that you can restore it if something goes wrong. This is done by clicking FILE then selecting EXPORT. Name the backup file so that you can find it and save to your desktop or elsewhere.

You can now proceed to go through the registry entries and remove any you do not want. When you examine the registry entries you will see that you are faced with a formidable task. Unless you really know what you are doing it will be obvious to you that you need help at this point. Just remove one wrong entry and you can completely disable the computer which we certainly do not want to do.

Fortunately help is readily available in the form of an online registry cleaner application which can do the job quickly and safely. A good registry repair utility will backup your registry then delete all unecessary entries from the registry. This will easily and safely clean the registry in a matter of minutes and return the computer to being the sweet running fast machine it was before the registry became corrupt.

We purchased several of the most popular registry cleaner applications and tested them to see which was best. We found that they vary greatly in ability to detect errors in the registry. The best registry cleaner applications could detect many more wrong entries than some of the others.

John Mowatt
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The Windows Operating system registry is the most important part of a Windows-based computer system. This registry is never to be tampered with by anyone. It is by itself a fully automatic database that forms the backbone of the windows operating system. The registry is a system-defined database used by the operating system to store configuration information used to operate the PC. Understanding the importance of a clean registry using a good registry cleaner is very important.

All Windows applications record data to the registry during the installation of the program. The system components store and retrieve this configuration data through the registry. The data stored in the registry varies according to the version of Microsoft Windows and the years or months the system has been used. This is because as programs and applications are added to and removed from the system the entries are made to the registry but are seldom removed if at all. Because of this automation of the system the registry constantly grows. It may become so large that the system will slow down and ultimately crash bringing everything to a halt. This is why it must be cleaned regularly with registry cleaner software.

How To use a Registry Cleaner?

Registry cleaners are available in abundance on the Internet. They are free versions and trial versions of registry cleaner software. You may decide to try out a registry cleaner before deciding if you want to buy it. A search on Google will turn up thousands of registry cleaners such as Tweaknow registry cleaner, XP registry Cleaner, Win registry cleaner and the like. All these registry cleaners work fine. They can the registry for redundant data and useless entries like broken links and remove them automatically. All this is dome within seconds and the system runs smoothly and faster than before the registry cleaner was run.

The registry cleaner scans the registry for information that does not need to be on the system but is there nevertheless. This slows the system down every time the registry is scanned for information that is needed to run the system. The scan always starts from the beginning of the registry and continues until the data is found. The scan will include going through all the entries including the bad entries that serve no purpose to the system. There are tens of thousands of such entries. Going through each one slows the system greatly. Registry cleaner software removes these entries and then compacts the registry by filling in the spaces left by removing the useless data. This is how a registry cleaner speeds up a system.

Arvind
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