Windows Registry Cleaner

Simply put, a Windows XP registry cleaner is a software package that will scan a Windows XP registry for registry errors and repair any it finds.  The beauty of the registry cleaning software in general is it can do in minutes what it used to take a human hours to do!  That is it can find all the errors in the registry and then fix them. 

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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Related Windows Registrty Cleaner Info:

1. Registry Checker For Vista
2. Registry Scanner
3. Windows Registry Clean
4. Windows Registry Repair