Windows XP and Vista Registry Cleaners, Are They Worth It?

Written By Chouhab on jeudi 29 janvier 2009 | 07:32

By Hiel Strassman

I recently recommended that one of my customers would use a registry cleaner periodically to keep his PC from building up registry corruption. This would get his computer's speed back up to normal. He told me he was surprised to hear me recommend a registry cleaner because he read an article demeaning their use. He asked if I was really sure he should be using one.

In this article, I will argue in favor of registry cleaners and show how I use them to overcome registry corruption. This registry corruption will slow a computer's operating capabilities and possibly make a PC not only very slow and error prone, but sometimes inoperable.

Windows Registries Corrupt Easily

Registry corruption exists and registry cleaners fix this corruption. I know this because I make a living repairing broken computers and I have seen corruption bring a computer to its knees. I have used registry cleaners many times to remove corruption and get these badly performing computers back up and speeding down the information highway again.

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 areas in a large operating system. That is just the way it is.

The first signs of registry corruption is a slowing computer. Of course, spyware and viruses also will cause a computer to slow down as well, but if a computer is free of these parasites, a slow computer is usually caused by registry corruption.

Registry Cleaners Are a Good Thing

My point is, if you are on a mission to stay away from registry cleaners, what do you do about registry corruption? Without using a registry cleaner, you will have to go into the registry yourself and manually clean it; this is something few people are qualified to do. Your other choice is, you could just stand by and watch as registry corruption eats your computer alive! Needless to say, I chose to use a good registry cleaner to take care of the problem.

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 times I have seen cases where a computer is operating very poorly and there are no incidents of spyware or viruses and turns it 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.

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