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Using a Free Registry Cleaner to Keep Your Computer Dependable and Fast

By Ed Lathrop
May 26, 2009
become necessary to clean our operating systems of registry corruption regularly. Even though it is sometimes hard to discover where the registry corruption is coming from, it seems to appear on everybody's hard drive sooner or later. Unfortunately, registry corruption has the ability to slow our computer down, sometimes even to a complete halt. Registry corruption can even be responsible for the blue screen of death!

The newer operating systems, Windows XP and Vista are so big, their registries become corrupted much more easily than their earlier counterparts, like Windows 98. Because these huge OS's have to travel further to work around any corruption that may be in its way, the PC will slow down, sometimes, drastically!

If a computer registry becomes corrupt to the point there is no other way to get your computer operating again except to reformat the hard drive, it would be very expensive both in time and money spent restoring the computer. Also, all the valuable files lost, provided they were not backed up would be irreplaceable. Therefore, using a cheap or free registry cleaner may end up being very expensive in the long run.

Many times, when a registry is cleaned, especially for the first time, 100's maybe even 1,000's of corrupted and missing files are found. This is important to note because any free registry cleaner I have ever seen offers to clean the first 50 of these bad files. Big deal! After that, you have to pay to get any registry corruption repaired.

So that you will be sure to know the free registry cleaner has cleaned all it is going to for free, the registry software will execute a pop-up on you desktop telling you you better buy their product now! This pop-up has no close button and and it seems to follow you around wherever you surf. To get rid of this pop-up you have to go to the task manager (cntrl-alt-del) and try to close it there.

Have you heard enough? Me too! Still there's more. To use the previously referred to as free registry cleaner in the first place, you have to register your copy with the company. This means they get your email address so they can send lots of email telling you it's time to pay for this free product!

It is also worth taking note that most of these registry cleaners don't mention anything about being Vista ready which means they are really not up date cleaners and probably don't measure up in many other ways, either.

The bottom line is; these free registry cleaners are anything but free. In fact, after the first 50 incidents of corruption are cleaned, the cleaner becomes about the most expensive one on the market!

The best way to find out which product will work well on your computer is via word of mouth. Some one who has used a product could tell you a lot about it. Also, if you know someone who works on computers, he/she would be able to make a reliable recommendation as well.

Remember, registry cleaners are the one tool you should be making use of. The main reason is malware and even temporary internet files are being removed from the hard drive at a rapid pace. This will leave corruption in the registry. Obviously, the only cost effective way to remove it is to use a good registry cleaning program. So, this is the point, free registry cleaners are just not of good registry cleaning programs!
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