Wednesday, December 17, 2008

All About Windows XP and Vista Registry Cleaners

By Hiel Strassman

Probably the most overlooked computer maintenance tool is the registry cleaner. Not only is it a somewhat unknown entity, it also gets a bad rap from some people who either don't know how to use it properly and just don't have an understanding of how a Windows registry works.

I will use this article to make a case in favor of registry cleaners because I know their use is important in fighting off registry corruption. Also, I will talk about just what registry corruption can do to an operating system and how it can hinder normal computer operations.

Yes, Registry Corruption is Real

I repair computers as my line of work. I know registry corruption is a reality because I see it all the time. I've seen registry corruption slow computers down to the extent they were aggravating to operate and I've seen it render computers inoperable. I also have used registry cleaners to get a great many of these broken computers back up and running again. Most times, this has happened to the surprise and delight of my customers.

If you are looking for laboratory results to judge what a registry cleaner can do, I can't help you there. However, if you want to know if you can get by without ever using a registry cleaner, all I can say is, probably not. Sooner or later it is very likely your registry will become corrupt and the only way I know to fix it is with a registry cleaner.

New OS's Need To Be Corruption Free

It is true, registry corruption wasn't very much of a consideration a few years back. However, now with the huge file systems Windows XP and Vista operate under, it takes a long times for one operation to take place when it has to work through corruption. I know this may not make sense, but one piece of corruption will probably only affect a small area of a small operating system. However, the same amount of corruption will affect many ares in a large operating system. That is just the way it is.

Registry corruption will cause a computer to slow down. Sometimes this slowing down can be quite significant. Registry corruption will also cause errors and crashes. These things seem to mock the presence of spyware or viruses. Still, corruption must be dealt with when it is present.

You Have to Get Rid of Corruption Somehow!

I don't know what these people who think registry cleaners are useless do when their computers slow down and spyware or viruses are not the problem. In my experience, when this situation occurs, it is always registry corruption causing the problem. I personally, don't know how I'd get along without a registry cleaner.

So when a computer is not performing properly and it is shown to be free of viruses and spyware, the next thing you should do is scan the registry. Many time I have seen it be the case where a computer is operating very poorly and there are no incidents of spyware of viruses and turns out the registry is full of corruption.

From my experience, I know once you clean a corrupt registry with a good registry cleaner, the computer starts to perform better than it has in a while. I have had many happy customers remark after their computer's registry was cleaned, that they hadn't seen their computer perform so well in a long time. - 16492

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