How To Clean Your Registry - The Easy Way
If you computer is not running as fast as the day you brought it home, you're getting DLL errors, your computer freezes, or you get the dreaded blue screen of death then there's a good chance that your computer's registry is in need of a good cleaning.
Your Windows registry holds all the information about your computer, the programs running on it and the hardware attached to it. registries can become corrupt either due to a operating system error, a virus or spyware. When this happens cleaning out your registry will get your computer running smoothly again.
There are two ways to clean your windows registry. You can either go in manually and delete or change what needs to be fixed or you can let some registry cleaning software do it for you.
I recommend not trying to clean your registry unless you are real good with computers. Microsoft also recommends that you leave the registry alone. You could delete a piece of information that your computer needs to run. Doing this without a backup will lead to the ultimate destruction of your computer. Your computer will then spend a few days in the shop having Windows reinstalled or you will spend a few hours doing it yourself.
A good registry cleaner can find the location of the most common technical issues. They are designed with scanners that find errors and then fix them. They also monitor and prevent future registry errors. The software will also let you know what errors are occurring and the potential problems that may arise. These errors include activex controls, dlls, windows explorer, windows installer, internet explorer, system32, runtime, and outlook errors. With this big list of errors you can see why having a clean registry it a good idea.
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