Although there are many commercial software programs that claim to clean up registry problems, it is often uncertain of the truth. Windows itself has all these programs?

Laptop Toshiba using Windows 8.

Hello

First of all, a great thing about registry cleaning is it isn't and shouldn't be a computer maintenance task. Clear the cache and cookies of your browser every week? Great, nothing wrong here. Your favorite registry database run cleaner each week? NOT BIG.

If we're here to be honest and direct, cleaning the registry is a completely pointless thing to do. So far, what I've said makes it sound like I despise the registry cleaners. I do? No, I do not despise them, but as I said, they are not necessary and if used carelessly can make your operating system a Clipboard.

Then why would you even use a registry cleaner in the first place? Well, they're doing something right or they would not even be allowed to (if paid) sales or if they were free (CCleaner for example) there will be a huge game, more than what it already is in IT, regarding the opinions based on registry cleaners.

Cleaning software to register is useful mainly for one thing and it may very well be made according to the algorithm uses the cleaner software itself, and which is to remove remnants of uninstalled old software or entries including path names now not valid. Sometimes it can be possibly useful for removing traces of malware that may have been stored in the registry that was not properly deleted after you run an analysis antivirus, etc..

Other that that, it won't do anything. It will not increase the performance of your system by any means whatsoever. Nothing notable. A "register of small" in theory would one assume that the things load faster, etc, but in reality, there no performance difference either.

For reference, take a look at this:

Mark Russinovich (author of the co-founder of 'Bible', Windows Internals, Winternals and Sysinternals, and that both companies were bought by Microsoft, now a senior employee of Microsoft) asked:
Hi Mark, do you really think that registry junk left by uninstalled programs could severely slow down the computer? I would like to 'hear' your opinion.

His answer:
No, even if the registry was massively bloated there will be little impact on the performance of something else comprehensive research.

On Win2K Terminal Server systems, however, there is a limit on the total amount of registry data that can be loaded and so large profile hives can limit the number of users that can be simultaneously connected.

I did not and never will implement a registry cleaner since it's of little practical use on anything other than Win2K terminal servers and developing one that is safe and effective requires a huge amount of application-specific knowledge.

So, to summarize all this:

Q: Using a registry cleaner will increase the speed and/or the performance of my system?

A: N °

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Q: Why I even use a registry cleaner then?

A: Personally, I wouldn't use an any and would find the problem you are expressly have and handle manually. It is much safer. However, the main use of registry cleaners is to delete again as mentioned above, software remains of old uninstalled or entries including path names now invalid. Sometimes it can be possibly useful for removing traces of malware that may have been stored in the registry that was not properly deleted after you run an analysis antivirus, etc..

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Q: What is the real danger to use a registry cleaner?

A: You must remember that you use is an automated tool that is not perfect by any means. You put your trust in an automated tool to be absolutely sure that it is about to remove all keys is 100% useless. At certain times and I saw him personally myself a LOT, it can remove a very important key, which is necessary for the functionality of your operating system in one form or another.

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Q: What happens if my registry is corrupt, running a registry cleaner will help?

A: Absolutely not.

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