Windows Registry Cleaning Your Registry

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Cleaning Your Registry is as Easy…

Regular registry maintenance goes a long way in keeping your registry healthy and free from problems. Discussed here are three simple steps to perform registry maintenance.

Uninstall Unwanted Applications

Every time you install applications on your PC, certain entries are made in the registry. All these entries add up to the size of the registry and can cause registry bloat. If you have too many applications installed on your system, the registry will grow to a very large size, which may make it unstable and even cause damage to it. Therefore, the first step to clean up your registry is to uninstall unwanted applications from your PC.

While uninstalling applications, you must ensure that you use the correct method to perform the uninstallation. Some of the methods that you may use to uninstall applications are:

Remove Malware Programs

Malware programs such as virus, Trojans, spyware, and adware add malicious entries in the registry. These registry entries not only clutter the registry but also generate various errors on your system. If the infection is more severe, these malicious registry entries may cause your registry to crash and even cause data loss.

Therefore, to prevent these problems you need to use reliable antivirus and antispyware tools and run them regularly on your system to prevent unwanted malicious entries from infiltrating the registry. You may also turn on the real time protection of these tools, to stop these malware programs from getting onto your system in the first place.

Use a Registry Cleaner

The most important way to clean the registry is to use a registry tool. As no specific registry cleaning tool is available in Windows, you need to use a third-party registry cleaner tool to clean the registry. You can search for and download a tool that is compatible with your operating system and that meets your system requirements. Registry cleaner tools are usually GUI-based with a user-friendly interface that makes it simple for even a novice user to clean their Windows registry.

 

First and foremost, registry cleaners enable you to perform a thorough scan of the registry to identify obsolete, unwanted, and malicious information within it. After the scan, results are displayed on the screen. You can go through these results and select the ones you want to delete. If you are not too sure about what to do, you can use the automatic cleanup option to allow your registry cleaner tool to repair the registry. By cleaning the registry you can fix many system errors and also get rid many malicious registry entries.

You can also use the registry cleaner tools to defrag the registry and make the registry files contiguous and compact. Defragging the registry helps in enhancing the data access time and in boosting the performance of your PC.

You can also use the registry cleaner tool to make registry backups. Because the registry is critical for your system, it is recommended that you create regular registry backups. This way if your registry fails, you can use your registry cleaner tool to restore the registry.