Cleaning Your Registry - The Simple Tips - By: Justin Davis

Tinkering with your Windows registry without the technical know-how can prove harmful to your PC. These tips should prove useful:

Having an up-to-date back up is the best insurance against registry mishaps or any other computer disaster. You can restore your PC integrity to its condition before the tinkering if you do so.

When using a registry cleaner, you need to pay keen attention to details. It's different with wizards which only ask you to click one 'next' button after another. This is a very crucial operation and could mean life or death for your computer. Read all instructions that come with your registry cleaner.

Make use of the Emergency Recovery Utility NT (ERUNT) to back up the registry before starting the cleaning process. There are registry cleaners that automatically back up any changes that are being made so you just skip this. If you want to take extra precautionary measure, this would not hurt.

Be sure that there are no other applications running when you start scanning. It is also wise to exit the customary tools that are usually running in the system tray. Running applications are continuously making registry changes, thus, making the work of the registry cleaner very intricate.

The program will allow you to remove, or in some cases, repair some errors in the registry once the scanning is done. If an option is possible, set the registry cleaner to remove errors only at the level wherein things remain safe and procedures are minimally intrusive. The program might still find a thousand or two entries that need to be deleted even with this setting. There's no such thing as an automatic cleaning.

Sorting through the errors that need to be removed or repaired is a painstaking procedure. Choose only the entries that ring a bell. But if you are not sure what an entry does, just leave it alone. Observe your PC for the next day or two and if it is still running smoothly, try scanning again. This time, choose the more aggressive options. But be careful to examine entries marked 'caution.' Unless you have technical know-how, leave them alone. The assurance of registry cleaners of restoring deleted registry entries isn't always true. Restoration may not be possible if the deleted entry is essential for the system to boot.

If some program don't launch or other similar problems arise, you don't have to worry. Try using the registry cleaner's restore feature. Use the ERUNT to restore the registry if the other feature won't fix it.

Anyone who has done an online query for a Windows registry cleaner knows that the World Wide Web is rife with pages and pages of downloadable software solutions that claim to optimize the speed and performance of your PC, with some even professing to bring it back to like-new condition! While most of us may be a bit wary of such outlandish claims, we may also be asking ourselves how we are ever going to narrow down the choices of the products that sound more reasonable, appear legitimate, and don't cost an arm and a leg. The following tips are meant as a guide to help you, Joe-Computer-User, make some sense out of the confusing, sometimes contradictory, information that is out there in regards to the somewhat controversial topic of Windows registry cleaners.
Don't get click-happy and download the first program you come across.
As with most products, choosing the right registry cleaning software requires a bit of research and investigation. Make sure the products you are considering are compatible with your particular system, and avoid rogueware at all costs! Those are nasty, fake anti-virus, anti-spyware, or anti-anything programs disguised as helpful utilities that attempt to steal your money by scaring you into paying for removal of nonexistent threats, and they then install malware, create pop-ups, or just harm your system in different ways.

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