The registry is the most important component of any Windows
operating system. This makes registry maintenance extremely important.
This task is made easy by using a registry cleaner application which
can be downloaded from the internet. It is quite simple to download one
of these programs and carry out regular maintenance of your registry.
How to Use A Good Registry Cleaner
1. Get a free scan from the registry cleaner tool to
determine if
your registry is in need of repair .If you have been using the computer
for some time it will definitely run much better with registry repair.
2. Download the software from the internet.You will find many
choices available but some are clearly better than others. We recommend
REGEASY
which we found to be clearly superior in
performance. You can download to a
folder where you
will easily find it. On the desktop is a good idea.
3 Install. the software on your hard drive
Most of these files which you will download are
exe files
and are Windows install programs. You can double click on the file and
this will install the registry cleaner tool to your system. Now just
follow the instructions on your
monitor to complete the installation.
You then accept the license agreement, name the folder to install the
software in, and specify where you want shortcuts to be
placed, such as on Desktop and Quick Launch or
Start Menu. When the
installation has finished, you click on ‘Finish’
and this will close
the installation window.
4. Launch the Software
Registry cleaner tools usually give you
the option
to use the application right after you finish the installation. If this
is not the case to launch the tool, you can double click the program
icon on the
desktop.
All good registry cleaner tools, when started up,
will
first create a backup of the registry. If you do not receive a prompt
to do this, you should choose the backup option of the software to
create your registry backup. The registry is an
extremely
important component of the operating system so you must always create a
registry backup before making any changes to it. This backup
will
allow you
to restore the registry to
where it was, before you made any changes, if there are problems.
5. Clean the Registry
The work to be done by the registry cleaner tool
is to
scan the registry for errors, invalid file paths, empty spaces, invalid
and corrupt entries, viruses,Trojans, malware and spyware.
Now
scan
registry for errors by selecting the scan option
from your
registry cleaner. After you have completed the scan, the list of errors
the application has detected will be displayed on the screen.
The majority of the cleaners allow selection of
the
errors you wish to fix manually. When you have selected those errors
which you want to fix, you then select the repair or box displayed on
your
screen
and fix the registry errors.Nearly all good registry cleaners which are
available, will perform selective scans of your registry. If you want
to scan the registry only for a certain kind of error, for
instance invalid shortcuts, you can
scan only
for those errors.
6. Some Extra Options
With some registry cleaners you can
also carryout
some other system maintenance. You may find other choices such as are
Startup Organizer,Backup and restore, Privacy Cleaner and perhaps
.
others
Backup and restore will make a
backup of the
registry and restore it to its oroginal state if there are problems
while editing your registry.
Startup organizer will manage the programs that
you load
during startup. Over some time, many programs will start loading at
startup. The startup organizer can stop some programs from loading
automatically
which helps provide a faster startup.
We have tested most of the popular registry cleaner tools.We found that
they would all do the job reasonably well but some were much better
than others. REGEASY
found up to 50% more errors than some of the other tools and was
clearly a superior product. This is the registry cleaner tool we choose
to use on our own computers. It is easy to use,efficient and safe. You
can get a free scan to fix registry errors from REGEASY.
