There is a lot of talk about registry cleaners not being necessary. There is a school of thought that says, since we didn’t
use registry cleaners back in the time of Windows 95, why would we need to use them today? To answer this question we need to analyze the differences between Windows operating systems of the Windows 95 era and the Windows operating systems of today. We also need to analyze how our computers are affected by registry corruption.
Compared to today’s operating systems, Windows 95 is tiny. Still however, Windows 95 registries were often affected by registry corruption and in fact, registry corruption was the demise of many a Windows 95 OS.
One of the main differences was back then; Windows registry cleaners were not really available. There was a Windows program called registry checker. This built in Windows program located registry problems but depended upon a technician to come in and fix these problems. This was a far from foolproof method of maintaining a Windows registry.
Many times registry problems caused a computer to behave so poorly the owner was forced to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows 95 or perhaps a newer version of Windows. These problems included computer slowdowns freezes and crashes. Today we would be able to repair these problems easily by using a registry cleaner. This of course, frees us from the burden of reformatting our hard drive and losing all our information that is stored on it.
Today’s operating systems are affected identically by registry corruption. In other words, registry problems will cause a computer to slow down and/or freeze up and/or crash altogether. Those who don’t believe in using registry cleaners often resort to the same remedy they did back in the Windows 95 era. In other words, they would reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system a new.
Yes, this would solve the problem. However, it would create more problems than it solves, especially if the computer owner had not been backing up his/her computer files. If they had backed up their files, the only thing that would be lost would be the hours of time it would take to copy these backup files onto the hard drive. If the files had been backed up, they would be lost forever!
Yes, in my view registry cleaners are necessary. Without them we would return to a time when registry corruption meant reinstalling our operating system when it started to misbehave. This is a time I don’t want to return to! Instead, I will gladly opt for registry cleaner any time.
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