Keeping Your Computer Up To Speed With Registry Repairs

13 Januari 2009

By Ed Lathrop

It is difficult to say whether computer viruses and spyware are a bigger threat to our computer's health than registry corruption is in today's computing world. Definitely, there was a time there was no question it was the computer virus that was our biggest concern, but now things are changing.

Registry corruption is a relatively new concern to computer owners. Probably the reason for this is two-fold. First, before virus and spyware cleaners were as advanced as they are today, we had all we could handle keeping our computers free of these parasites. Second, Windows 95 and 98 were tiny compared to Windows XP and Vista and so registry corruption just didn't affect computers the same way it does today.

How and why do we concern ourselves with registry corruption and what will happen to our computers if we don't? These are the topics we will talk about in this article.

Operating System Invaders

Whenever we install a new program or driver on our computer, we add many, maybe even hundreds of thousands of entries to our registry. When this program or driver is deleted or even upgraded, these entries, though they are no longer used, still remain in place in the registry. These entries are a type of registry corruption because they make the operating system work harder to get where it needs to go.

Another kind of registry corruption is added to our registries when we surf the Net. This is the temporary computer files that remain after we are through surfing. After these files are deleted, their registry entries remain.

Viruses, spyware, adware and malware are programs that add entries to the registry as well. These entries still remain after the spyware and viruses are gone. This happens because although spyware and viruses add entries to the registry, when your spyware/virus cleaner removes the spyware and the viruses, it is incapable of removing the registry corruption they leave behind.

It has to be noted that as time goes on, this registry corruption causes the computer to act up. The computer will probably slow down at first. More corruption will cause the computer to slow down and after the corruption gets even more plentiful the computer is likely to suffer crashes.

The Next Step

What all this means is, in today's world we have many more programs placing entries in the registry than ever before. Probably there are thousands of times more entries being placed in the registry than there were 10 years ago. Add to this fact that the newer Windows operating systems, namely Windows Vista and XP are way larger than the early Windows operating systems and you can see how registry corruption has become a real issue!

Getting rid of registry corruption is as easy as having a good registry cleaner installed on your computer. To remain free of corruption, you should run the registry cleaner once a week or so and after your virus and or spyware cleaner has removed a virus or spyware. To run at peak efficiency, a computer must be free of spyware/viruses and registry corruption.

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