What The Heck is Windows Registry?

By Anne Torres

All the way through the internet you will discover many diverse opinions about Windows registry cleaners, and why you need one. Frankly, the Windows registry is a complex filing system and this is the reason why it has confused so many people. The main function of the Windows registry is to store all data concerning to software and hardware configurations of your computer. But is there any requirement to record such information? Certainly, for the reason that this data helps the Windows operating system to understand how to run a particular software or hardware! The registry also helps in keeping your settings together.

The registry is more often than not healthy if you don't install too many software or hardwares onto your system. As soon as you install a new software or hardware on your system, several new entries for that program are created in your registry. Likewise, when you uninstall or remove a program from your computer, most of those entries are taken away from the computer registry except a few.

Over time, as you install and uninstall more and more programs on your system, more and more registry entries are produced and eliminated, and in this resist of creation and destruction, there are always a few registry entries which are never deleted from the system at all! Soon they get piled up and make your registry bulky. This in turn slows down your computer. Now maybe you're wondering what the size of the Windows registry has got to do with your PC performance!

You may not be aware of it, but your computer makes several calls to your registry. When it gets the proper replies from the registry, it starts performing its day to day activities. If your registry becomes large and bulky, it takes your computer a long time to get the replies. Consequently, your computer will take more time to perform tasks that it would have done quicker. This is the reason behind the poor performance of your PC. So what is the way out, you might ask.

The only way out is to clean all the junk from your Windows registry and make it lighter in order to facilitate it to carry out its operations faster. But unless you are a computer expert it is almost next to impossible to detect a junk registry entry from a convincing one. You must delete only the junk entry; if you rub out a valid registry entry by mistake, your entire computer might stop operating!

The safest way to go about it is to use a professional registry cleaner. Professional registry cleaners are programmed in a way that they can without difficulty notice the invalid entries residing in your Windows registry and remove them at the push of a button. Most of the registry cleaner softwares are so easy to use that even a computer novice will find no problem in using them! Add to that that most registry cleaner softwares are cheap!

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