How To Select A Good Registry Cleaner…
So, you have decided to buy a registry cleaner tool to maintain a healthy registry. Before investing in a tool, it is important to know what to look for before you make your selection. Here are a few tips that may help you.
Technique Used To Perform Scan and Repair
Many registry tool manufacturers market their tools by boasting to detect and remove hundreds of errors from your registry. As an aware user, you must not get carried away by these claims and first find out about the technique these tools use to detect registry errors.
Many registry cleaners who claim to detect several registry errors, usually scan the registry and display even those entries as errors that the tools is not aware about. The main drawback of this technique is that many times even essential registry entries are displayed as errors and removing these entries may cause more harm to your system. This technique is usually referred to as the ‘bulk and deep’ technique and you must avoid investing in tools that are based on this technique.
The other technique is the ‘Safe and Smart’ technique. Tools based on this technique ensure that all suspected registry entries are carefully analyzed before they are displayed as errors. Moreover, these tools categorize the displayed errors in ‘Safe to Delete’, ‘Not Sure’, and ‘Unknown’ categories to enable you to easily scan through all the errors and select the ones you are sure to delete. This technique is good because it helps you perform Windows registry fixes by cleaning up the real junk files accumulated within it.
Types of Registry Backup Techniques Offered
Almost all registry cleaner tools offer the feature that enables you to backup your Windows registry. In fact, it is quite easy to back up the registry using the ‘regedit’ tool included in your Windows operating system. So, what should a registry cleaner tool offer to make this feature more attractive to you? One of the most commonly sort out feature is the undo feature. Not many registry tools offer this feature. Therefore, if you commit a mistake while editing the registry, you may be able to revert the changes back only by restoring from full or selective registry backups you would have taken before the edit. To save you from this hassle, certain advanced registry cleaner tools offer the Undo feature that you can use to easily undo your changes just by clicking a button.
Registry Defrag Feature
Along with a safe scan and repair feature, it is important for you to ensure that your registry cleaner tool enables you to defrag the registry. The registry gets fragmented due to registry bloating and accumulation of a large number of empty registry keys or placeholders of removed registry keys. Defragging the registry helps you in consolidating the registry files to make them contiguous and remove the empty registry keys to make your registry compact. All these activities considerably improve the time required to access the registry and, in turn, improves the performance of your PC.
Other PC Maintenance Features
It’s human to want more for your money. This need of yours is taken care of by registry tools that enable you to perform other PC maintenance tasks, such as manage Startup programs, Internet Browser Help Objects (BHO), and temporary Internet Files. The ability to manage these components not only enables you to get rid of unwanted debris from the PC but also ensures you an error-free, high performance system.
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