A good registry cleaning program can be far more productive than a human ever could be in detecting and repairing a PC problem.  Sometimes it can take a person hours to track down a particular registry entry that is causing a computer to act in an undesirable way.  A registry cleaner, on the other hand can find hundreds of problems, if there are hundreds of registry problems, in just a few seconds.

There are times some folks like to entry the registry manually to make adjustments to the way your computer operats.  Making a tweak in this way to the registry requires running the operating system’s built in program, Regedit.  Then expanding folders until the right folder is found and then changing a number or a code to the file in that folder.  Sometimes instead of a number, a yes is changed to a no.  Sometimes, though I cringe to think about it, a file is deleted.  I cringe because deleting the wrong file can spell total disaster for the operating system!

Someone told me about entering Regedit to make it so his favorites menu would be alphabetized.   Though I don’t know this procedure off hand, I know one would start by entering the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder which is one of the 5 main registry hives.  After entering this hive I imagine it would require a laborious set of steps to get the favorites menu to be alphabetized.  This fellow admitted it was rather complicated.  I told him if he went to his favorites menu, right clicked on any favorites entry and then chose “sort by name” from the menu, his favorites would become alphabetized.

That is just one example.  For anything you can do by entering the registry there is an easier way to do the same thing through the Windows interface; or as the techie types would prefer saying, GUI.  So, the bottom line is don’t go playing around in the registry to make some kind of tweak.  As far as making fixes to the registry is concerned, use a registry cleaner, it’s much safer and a whole lotb easier!

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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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