In a very simplified sense, registry corruption is nothing more than pointers that leads to either the wrong place or no place at all.  With the older smaller operating systems the amount of time it took to carry out a few false operations was negligible.

In the new, very large operating systems, one false pointer can lead the operating system hunting for a long time before it discovers the hunt will bear no fruit.  Multiply this type of useless operation by thousands, maybe even millions and you will have an idea of the effect registry corruption has on your computer’s speed.

In short, the effect registry corruption has on your computer is that it will slow down all its operations.  Sometimes the corruption will slow your computer down to where it cannot accomplish anything.  Also, registry corruption will make your computer operate inefficiently.

Operating inefficiently means you’ll likely see many Windows registry errors such as a runtime error r6025.  Of course the biggest error of them all is the blue screen of death, and more times than not it is registry corruption that causes the blue screen.  The only way to be sure registry corruption never develops or to eliminate the corruption that is already in the registry is to use a registry cleaner.

Hiel Strassman

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