Tuesday, December 27, 2011

How to fix a corrupt registry


Windows registry is the back bone of all operating systems. If this goes wrong or gets corrupted you may experience issues such as a slow computer, computer lock ups and many more similar issues.

Windows registry is an important database

The registry is a database that stores all Windows options and configuration settings. It contains all the data for all software and hardware as well as for the entire operating system. Also, all other applications, and all user settings (user profiles, installed software, the sort of documents the users create, etc).

All the installed applications access this registry all the time and new entries are created whenever you install new software or hardware. This all design the registry very huge and critical storage database. Thus it is really important to protect your registry all the time.

Registry may affect your computer’s overall performance

Upon removing of any program it gets removed from the registry as well. This is applicable with all the programs that get removed from the computer. However, some programs leave a lot of leftovers behind. These remains create all the issues there in the registry. Such invalid entries accumulate eventually. And of course computer viruses that attack the registry and change it to make your computer susceptible and unsteady. Thus it is extremely important to clean the Windows registry always.

How to protect your registry?

Earlier it used to be little easier to correct registry entries as there were less number of items.

It required extensive computer knowledge and was very dangerous, because one entry deleted by mistake could make your computer non functional and unbootable.

However there is an alternate which can be used easily and safely and that is to use one of the free registry cleaners available on the market. But before you run any such registry cleaner it is very important to make sure the program will not affect your computer’s other functionality at all. Few of the important facts are as follows:

The software is trustworthy and developed by some well known organization.

The registry cleaner software has a reliable backup system in it.

It does not affect other functionalities of your computer.

This need to be noted that a registry cleaner cannot fix all your system issues guaranteed rather it cleans most of the bad entries. However most of the time it is very effective and can resolve your many issues especially the registry related one.

Now selecting a good registry cleaner is really not easy as there are number of cleaners that claim to be the best but they do not help much. In such case you can use a free trial version for some time and then decide to use it or not. It is also recommended to take a registry backup prior to running any registry repair program in your computer. This makes sure that in case anything goes wrong you can reverse the changes.

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