Sunday, January 4, 2009

Registry Repairs and the Health of Your Computer

By Ed Lathrop

There was a time we didn't think too much about registry cleaners, or register repair software. Back in the days of Windows 95/98, our biggest enemies were computer viruses. Even though computer viruses are probably our biggest enemy still today, a corrupt registry can cause many computer problems!

Registry corruption is a very real concern of computer owners today. The huge new operating systems, Windows XP and Vista are affected by registry corruption in ways Windows 95 and 98 could not be. So, now that it seems we are able to control the viruses and spyware better than used to be able to, it is registry corruption that seems to making headway toward its goal of destroying our computers.

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.

Stuff That Gets Added

When we add a program or anything tangible to a computer, we add entries to the registry. When that program is removed, many of the entries from that program are still left behind in the registry. These entries, which are no longer needed, are known as registry corruption. There are other forms of registry corruption, but this is the most common one.

Surfing the net adds corruption of its own to the registry. This happens because the temporary files that are constantly added and deleted need to place entries in the registry. These entries rarely get removed when the are no longer needed.

Believe it or not viruses, spyware, adware and all the other kinds of malware, though they are unwanted programs, are viable software programs so, when they are removed, they too leave registry corruption behind.

Though it may not seem like a serious problem at first, registry corruption can do serious harm to your computer operations and eventually your operating system. Corruption will jam up ordinary operations because the operating system will have to deal with thousands of entries telling the operation system to go to places that don't exist. This will make your computer very slow and become prone to errors and crashes.

So, What Do I Do?

Everything finding its way on to our harddrive these days is whole lot bigger than the things that were around a few years back. Software, drivers, temporary Internet files, spyware, viruses and even the operating systems themselves dwarf the size of their predecessors. It is no wonder that when left alone our registries become corrupted and slow down our computers until they come to a complete halt!

It is easy enough to take care of registry corruption, just install a good registry cleaner on your computer and run it periodically. The best time to run a registry cleaner is after spyware has been removed. You do have a good spyware cleaner installed on your computer; don't you? - 16928

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