Is your PC getting slower? Over time has your once fast and
efficient computer become sluggish and unreliable? Is your system taking longer
to boot up and shut down and is it taking ages to launch applications? Are you
finding that it freezes when processing information and crashes regularly? All
of these problems, and more, are caused by errors in the registry.
You can think of the registry as a library where your system
stores all the essential operating system data in a single archive, for easy
access. It is the registry that tells your system, among other things, what
hardware and software is installed, which ports are in use, which applications
open which files, and what your user settings are.
As you use your PC (installing and uninstalling software, deleting files and modifying paths etc) the registry should be updated to record changes. However, for various reasons, this doesn’t always happen. Over time, the registry will become mixed up with duplicated, unwanted or damaged data entries, and will need reorganizing, and updating.
The problem is that cleaning the Windows registry manually is very difficult because the registry is so big and requires a lot of technical expertise to understand the information stored there. But it is also dangerous because the consequences of deleting the wrong entry are that your PC might become inoperable (and there is no “undo” button in the registry).
Find out if your registry needs cleaning by clicking here.
