We say a lot about registries, and achieving and maintaining a clean PC registry is at the top of our priority list.  Actually obtaining that clean PC registry can be a bit mystifying, so we’re offering some suggestions that will smooth out the process and leave your registry squeaky clean in no time.

Tip 1: Don’t Ignore the Registry

The Windows registry system is used every time you turn on your PC and multiple times during each computer session.  New entries are constantly being made and are seldom deleted.  Often if they are deleted, their removal is incomplete.

Even with all this activity, the registry has no self-cleaning setting and your computer does not come with a tool to declutter the registry manually.  However, this doesn’t indicate that maintenance should be forgotten.

On the contrary, a bloated registry full of old and corrupted entries from no-longer-existent programs and old settings creates computer errors like the blue screen of death, DLL errors, program crashes, and general processing slowness.  Registry cleaning should be on your list of regular monthly computer maintenance, along with defragging, and using the Check Disk tool.

Tip 2: Leave the Manual Edits to a Professional

You may be thinking of attempting to manually clean your computer’s registry in the interest of saving money (and possibly time, if you were considering leaving your machine with a technician).  Unless you are an out-of-work and bored computer tech, don’t attempt this.

The occasional edit using the proper precautions and the right step-by-step instructions can turn out fine.  A major housecleaning session?  Not only would it be time-consuming, the registry is extremely hard to navigate and one wrong move may make it so that your computer can’t even boot up.  Even a registry back up won’t help you at that point.

Tip 3:  Use a Trusted Registry Cleaner

If we’re nixing the manual method, then we have to give you another option–the registry cleaner.  These programs scan your registry and find all of the errors at once.  Once they uncover all of the errors, you will be able to review the errors and then repair them.

Here’s an extra tip: don’t play with your computer during the repair process.  You don’t want to be creating new entries while the registry cleaner is working on your registry.  This can slow or stop the process.

And it will only take two minutes anyway.  If you regularly use a registry cleaner to obtain a clean PC registry, you will be amazed at how much speed your PC gains and how much more smoothly it runs.

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