Microsoft suggests no one work on a Windows registry manually unless he/she is no less than a Microsoft Certified
Professional.  There is good reason Microsoft makes that assertion.  If we are not sure exactly what result changing a certain entry in the in the registry will have, changing this entry will usually have very bad results.  Even worse, these bad results could be irreversible!

The way to go about editing the registry is to use a registry cleaner.  Registry cleaners will restore registries to their best working condition.  This is all I need to know about fixing registries.

The only other thing I need to know about registries themselves is they are altered by any changes we make to our windows operating system.  The changes I mean are things like adding or deleting a software program.  Any change you make in the control panel will change entries in the registry.  In fact, any changes you can make through regedit, you can make and be literally walked through that same change by making it in the control panel.

The question is, why would you want to risk severe damage to your Windows operating system by using regedit when you can easily and safely make any change you could possibly need to make through the control panel?  You can relax when you are making changes through the control panel because if you if should do something weird in there, Windows will pop up a message telling so and ask you if you really want to do it.  Regedit isn’t so forgiving!

So, you can see Microsoft isn’t being smug by not wanting us to tamper directly with their registries by using regedit.  It is just that it is best to heed their advice and steer clear of the temptation to use the Windows registry editor.

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How to clean registry in the old days, like in about 2003, it took a lot of patients and a lot of know how.  These were the days before registry cleaners when registry cleaning had to be done by hand.  When a computer was having a lot of errors, crashes and/or running slowly and it was found to be free of
 and viruses, a technician would be called in to track down the registry problem.

The program a technician would run back in thse days is known as “Regedit.”  Regedit is a program bulilt in to the Windows operating system and is accessed from the run command line.  Once the technician enters the program he finds a Windows Hierarchal structure that consists of thousands of folders and files.  Helping somewhat is the fact these thousands of files and folders used to be broken down into 6 parts.  The parts were referred to as hives.  Actually, Windows registries are still broken down into hives.  The only difference is today there are 5 instead of 6.

It is my opinion, back in these days registries rarely ever were 100% after they developed problems.  Usually, all a technician could do was get the computer running again.  Often its performance would still be below par.  Ah yes, the good old days for we technicians!  Back when almost every computer was crashing all the time!

Then came the registry cleaner.  A registry cleaner can scan through an entire Windows registry in minutes checking each registry entry on the fly.  Checking every registry entry is something a human couldn’t do, probably in a lifetime!

After the registry program is through with its scan it will then go back through and repair or replace the entries it found to be corrupt and just as importantly, it will eliminate the entries that are not needed.  The reason this is important is it is the no longer needed entries which have been left over from previous operations that will often make a computer slow.

So, using a registry cleaner is the answer to the” how to clean registry problems” question.  However, before you go out and get a free scan with just any registry cleaner make sure you take the advice from someone who has used registry cleaners so you know you will be getting a dependable product.  The reason for this is a registry cleaner of an unknown quality may do you no good at all.  Even worse, an outdated or poor cleaner could cause you more problems than you have already!

One final note:  Don’t use Regedit ever!  Not only is it near impossible to fix a registry using Regedit, if you make one wrong entry while using it, it could be curtains for your operating system!

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The internal registry utility which is built into Windows XP is Regedit.  It is accessed through the “run” command.  Windows Vista has the same tool but it accessed in a different manner.  It is not recommended anyone use the Regedit utility because if a wrong entry were made into it, the computer could fail altogether.  Regedit use to be all a technician or anybody else had in order to get into the registry and repair any problems inside it.  Since this was prior to the advent of registry cleaners Regedit was the only tool we had to try to repair our failing registries , so sometimes we had no choice but to use it. 

Now, fortunately registry cleaners abound and they will take care of the job of freeing our registries of corruption, automatically!  The advantages of using a good registry cleaner over trying to repair a registry using Regedit are many.  Among these advantages are:

• A good registry cleaner will not cause any harm to your registry in the way using the registry utility, Regedit potentially could.
• No training is needed to use a registry cleaner.
• Free scans are available so you will know whether or not you need a registry cleaning before you go ahead and purchase one.
• A good registry cleaning utility will have additional functions in the software program that will increase your computer’s speed in ways impossible if you simply cleaned the registry of corruption.  One such operation the best registry cleaners perform is “registry optimization.”

In short, registry cleaners are the registry utilities that take all the hard work a computer owner used to be faced with when he or she was trying to perform the formerly arduous task of getting and keeping a PC fast and error free.

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A registry cleaner, on the other hand, will check the registry for errors and then repair them, or clean the registry of any errors and corruption it finds.  Actually, there is no such thing as a pure registry checker.  This is true even though a registry cleaner checks for errors and corruption in the early stages of its operation.

Besides Microsoft registry checker, registry cleaners are also known as Microsoft registry cleaners, Windows registry cleaners, registry scanners and registry repair software or programs.

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However, today when we talk about Windows repair software we are usually speaking of a registry cleaner.  A registry cleaner will remove all the bad files from the registry and in many cases, get a poorly performing Windows installation back up and running at 100%.

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Several years ago, there were software programs avialable that would do just that.  They would scan a Windows registry in its entirety, and print out to the screen any problems it found.  Usually, these checker programs were software code written by individuals who were not backed by any company.  Such programs were mostly available as
 ”freeware” or “shareware.”

After a registry checker reported its findings to the user, it was up to the user to find a way to repair the registry.  This part of the task was usually accomplished by entering the Windows “Regedit” program and removing or replacing the files the registry checker had found problems with.

Using Regedit is not recommended for a novice computer technician because irreparable harm can result from making a wrong entry into the registry in this manner.  Even the most qualified technicians find using Regedit to be an arduous task!

Today’s registry cleaners include the function that used to be performed by a registry checker.  This is why registry cleaners are so often called registry checkers.  Indeed, registry cleaning software programs have registry checker functions within them.  The difference is when a registry cleaner finds registry problems, it still reports them back to the user but then it goes ahead and repairs, or cleans out, the registry troubles.  This of course, makes a registry cleaner a registry checker plus much more!

Today’s computers are bombarded with registry corruption.  Registry corruption makes PC slow and often unresponsive.  It causes computers to commit errors and often to crash, or freeze up altogether.  Because registry cleaners find and rid computers of registry corruption, they have become a very important computer maintenance tool.

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It would be unwise to use a low quality cleaner, such as a free one because it may not do the job so well and this could also lead to an inoperable computer.  Of course, an inoperable computer means there will be valuable files lost.  Some of them may be difficult or impossible to replace!

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So that you will be sure to know the free registry cleaner has cleaned all it is going to for free, the registry software will execute a pop-up on you desktop telling you you better buy their product now!    This pop-up has no close button and and it seems to follow you around wherever you surf.   To get rid of this pop-up you have to go to the task manager (cntrl-alt-del) and try to close it there.

Have you heard enough?   Me too!  Still there’s more.  To use the previously referred to as free registry cleaner in the first place, you have to register your copy with the company.   This means they get your email address so they cansend lots of email telling you it’s time to pay for this free product!

It is also worth taking note that most of these registry cleaners don’t mention anything about being Vista ready which means they are really not up date cleaners and probably don’t measure up in many other ways, either.

The bottom line is; these free registry cleaners are anything but free.  In fact, after the first 50 incidents of corruption are cleaned, the cleaner becomes about the most expensive one on the market!

Going without a registry cleaner in this day and age could be likened to computer infanticide.  Choosing one on the sole basis of price is not a wise move, either.  If you don’t know which registry cleaner to get, try to find a trusted source who will give you a recommendation.  Probably this trusted source should be a computer technician or a friend who has used the product.

In closing, a registry cleaner is an important computer maintenance tool because registries in today’s operating system become corrupted for a number of reasons.  One of these reasons is adware and spyware and temporary files are being removed from the hard drive all the time and this leaves corruption in the registry. So, to remove this corruption, a registry cleaner is needed.  However, as we have learned, a free one just doesn’t cut the mustard!

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