Sometimes someone will ask me about register cleaners. He will say, for instance, “Should I be using a registry cleaner
on my computer?” The answer I give him is: no. The reason I say this is there is no such thing as a register cleaner. Let me explain.
I highly recommend every PC user use a registry cleaner. A registry is a part of a Windows operating system. Windows registries easily become clogged up with misinformation. Without getting into the details why this misinformation starts to accumulate in a Windows registry is a whole other topic. One which you probably wouldn’t be very interested. I will say however, the reason Windows registries become clogged up, or corrupt, have nothing to do with user error. Registries have a habit of gathering bad information on their own. Registry corruption is not the result of the user making a mistake of some kind.
When a Windows registry becomes corrupt bad things start happening to the computer. By bad things I mean the computer will slow down. Its performance will suffer and to the computer user it becomes an aggravating experience just to try to do what one would think would be simple things on the computer.
This is where registry cleaners come in. It is the right thing to use a registry cleaner on a computer that has become slow and may be crashing, freezing or doing a lot of other unwanted lamentations. This is because cleaning the registry in such a computer might just fix it. Since it is usually a registry problem that causes a computer to become slow to respond or possibly unresponsive altogether, cleaning the registry with a registry cleaner usually gets the computer working at its full capacity once again.
This brings us to the term “registry cleaner.” Register is a part of the microchips in your computer. One of these chips could be your microprocessor. There are definitely registers in your microprocessor. When we talk of the microprocessor, or UPC, we’re talking about the main chip in your computer. This could be a Pentium 4, for instance. Obviously, there is no way to clean a register. If your microprocessor were to go bad, you would have to change it.
Microprocessors are very expensive but fortunately they very seldom fail. Conversely, a registry cleaner is very inexpensive but Windows registries become corrupt so easily and cause so many computer problems when they do; using one regularly is a very good practice.
The picture above shows the bottom of a Pentium 4.
photo credit: huangjiahui
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