Anyone like me, who used to toil for hours at a time tracking down Windows registry errors, really appreciates the genius of the modern registry cleaner software.  As if the speed at which registry cleaners do their job isn’t enough, most of the better registry cleaners today have a registry optimization function as well.

Registry optimization is an additional set of software instructions registry cleaners execute once they are through with their registry file scanning and registry error repairing functions.  The optimizing process will further streamline commonly used registry operations and this will in turn, take even more strain off the operating system thereby letting the computer perform many of its functions even faster.

Back in the days of Windows 3.11, the Windows registry was microscopic compared to today’s registries.  The registry’s size of course, is dependant upon the size of the operating system.   The early Windows 95 OS was also very small compared to today’s giant operating systems.  Actually, Windows 95 service pack 2 took a huge leap in  size over its predecessor as it changed its file system from FAT16 to FAT 32. 

Each succeeding operating system continued to grow in size.  The one exception would be that Windows ME is actually newer and smaller in size than it’s predecessor Windows 2000.  The point is Windows XP absolutely dwarfs all the operating systems that came  before it.  Obviously, a regular Windows 98 registry cleaner would not be capable of cleaning it.  As you might imagine Windows Vista is still another leap up in size from Windows XP and so a new type registry cleaner had to be developed that would scan and repair it.

Most registry cleaners we use today are several registry cleaners in one package.  Many are Windows 98 registry cleaners, Windows XP registry cleaners ans Windows Vista registry cleaners in the same package.  When the user starts the registry scanner on his computer, the software recognizes the operating system it is starting to scan and switches to the appropriate registry cleaner.  So, if it is a Windows XP operating system it is scanning it will know to use its Windows XP programming.

Some registry cleaners contain all the operating system software programs and so they do not stipulate on their fact page which operating systems they are compatible with.  They clean them all.

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Windows XP Registry Cleaner

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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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