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In today’s newer, larger operating systems, registry corruption is a very real problem. Because of this, the registry should be cleaned periodically. Some think registry cleaning is not a needed operation because in years past a PC’s performance never deteriorated due to registry corruption. However, registry corruption in Windows XP and Vista cause a significant drop-off in performance.

Registry files are huge and complex. Some of these files tell each command a computer operation is carrying out where it will find its next needed file. You can think of these files as pointers.

Registry Corruption Causes Slowdowns

When pointers from no longer needed software still exist in the registry, they point to files an operation doesn’t need or worse yet, they point to a file that is no longer in the registry. This means an operation will be sent out looking for something that is useless for its completion. So, all an unneeded pointer does is waste time. These types of pointers are a form of registry corruption.

Because Windows XP and Vista are so large, false pointers waste a lot of the computer’s time and resources doing operations that are in no way helpful. Such operations need to be repeated again and again until the right pointer has shown the operating system the correct path. Of course, this will make the computer appear to be operating slowly.

Registry corruption can make a computer slow down so badly it can no longer be used. Of course, this would take a substantial amount of corruption, but it can and often does happen. Registry corruption can also cause the computer to crash and be error prone. Even the blue screen failure has often been the result of corruption in the registry.

Viruses, Spyware, Registry Corruption May All Look the Same, But…

Registry corruption may make a computer behave in a similar fashion to the way a computer operates when it is infected with spyware or a virus. Like registry corruption, spyware and viruses can also make a computer slow down and be error prone. However, where registry corruption makes the computer preform unnecessary operations, spyware and viruses steal the computer’s resources.

Though your computer has many more resources than just the CPU, opening up your task manager and looking at your CPU history will give you a very good idea how much of your computer’s resources are being used at any one time. Sometimes it is possible the CPU will be at 100 percent usage when the computer is just sitting idly. This could happen because spyware was using all your CPU power to do its misdeeds.

If a lot of your computer’s resources were being used and you tried to get the computer to do any task, like open up your word processor, you would see your computer would open it very slowly, if it was able to do it at all.

To give a quick recap, we all need to keep our computers to be free of viruses and spyware. However, if this is all we do we still may have a computer that is slow and error prone and may crash on occasion. The reason a spyware free computer would behave like this is that it probably has a corrupt registry.

It is important, but not enough to keep your PC free of viruses and spyware. On occasion a computer’s registry needs to be scanned for and cleaned of corruption. Doing this will insure your computer will run without producing errors and it will always run at its peak speed.

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Probably the most overlooked computer maintenance tool is the registry cleaner. Not only is it a somewhat unknown entity, it also gets a bad rap from some people who either don’t know how to use it properly and just don’t have an understanding of how a Windows registry works.

I will use this article to make a case in favor of registry cleaners because I know their use is important in fighting off registry corruption. Also, I will talk about just what registry corruption can do to an operating system and how it can hinder normal computer operations.

Windows Registries Corrupt Easily

The reason I know cleaning the registry is a needed process for keeping a computer running at full speed and error free is because I’ve seen it in action. Registry cleaners have helped me and my customers literally thousands of times in getting a PC out of its sick bed and back on its feet performing better than it has, sometimes for months. In other words, I know first hand what a registry cleaner will do for a computer. I have the thank you letters from satisfied customers to prove it!

I seen more cases than I can count where a computer started to crash frequently or become very slow and when this happened it was caused by corruption in the registry. When this happens, there is no other viable plan of action other than to uses a registry cleaner so this computer will once again operate normally.

Registry Cleaners Are Necessary Today

It wasn’t long ago registry corruption went on behind the scene and was hardly noticed. Enter Windows XP and Vista. These operating systems are much larger than their predecessors and because of this, corruption disrupts their operations and in turn causes them to be more difficult to keep running at top speed.

Registry corruption will cause a computer to slow down. Sometimes this slowing down can be quite significant. Registry corruption will also cause errors and crashes. These things seem to mock the presence of spyware or viruses. Still, corruption must be dealt with when it is present.

Registry Cleaners Are a Good Thing

I’d like to know what anybody who doesn’t use registry cleaners does when they run into problems with their computer’s that are caused by registry corruption, because I’ve seen a good registry cleaner solve problems with poorly functioning computers 100’s of times!

So when a computer is not performing properly and it is shown to be free of viruses and spyware, the next thing you should do is scan the registry. Many time I have seen it be the case where a computer is operating very poorly and there are no incidents of spyware of viruses and turns out the registry is full of corruption.

Of course, if there is no registry corruption, you will have to bring the computer to a professional. However, I have fixed many a sick computer with a registry cleaning, so I suggest you make sure you have no corruption before you bring your computer to somebody like me.

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