Monday, December 22, 2008

Are Registry and Hard Drive Cleaners Really a Rip Off?

By Ed Lathrop

Lately there has been a lot talk about registry cleaners not serving any purpose. Some people are saying they are not a necessary tool for keeping PC's running well. I've heard one obviously misinformed person, advise against wasting money buying one.

It just so happens I know from first hand experience registry cleaners do have an important role in the upkeep of today's computers. They should be used regularly and when they are not, a computer could slow down and die altogether.

You will read no technical jargon here. This is all about my business which is keeping home computers running the way they did when they were first taken out of the box. In other words, I am a computer technician and so, I will be talking from that perspective.

Actual Field Experience

The reason I know cleaning the registry is a needed process for keeping a computer running at full speed and error free is because I've seen what a corrupt registry will do to a computer and I've used commercial registry cleaners to overcome this corruption many times. I have tons of thank you letters from satisfied customers whose computers were resurrected by registry cleaners.

The plain and simple fact is, registries do become corrupted and when they do, the computer's performance suffers, maybe even to the point of uselessness. The best way to deal with this problem is to use a good registry cleaner.

The newer operating systems, namely Windows XP and Vista corrupt easily, and because these OS's are so huge, a little bit of corruption goes a long way toward deteriorating their performance. As corruption builds up in the registry the computer's speed will suffer, errors will become frequent and the blue screen of death often will occur.

In the Real World of Computers

My livelihood is repairing computers. I've seen computers that were running so slowly they were taking 10 minutes to load a simple Web page and these computers were spyware and virus free. The owner did nothing wrong that would cause the PC to behave this way. Still, after using a good registry cleaner the computer ran great. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this has happen!

I have no idea why there are some who are preaching against registry cleaners when I have seen them save computers from their demise time and time again!

For anyone who is still skeptical, here's the deal. A good registry cleaner offers a free scan so you can see if you have a corrupt registry before you commit to buying one. If you have no corruption, the case is closed, you don't need a cleaner. If you do have corruption, you can buy a cleaner with a complete money back guarantee. So, if your computer's not running right and you have no spyware or viruses but you do have registry corruption, I believe the only way you're going to get your computer going full speed ahead again, is to use a good registry cleaner. - 16928

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