Registry Cleaning

Everywhere on the Net you will come across ads for Registry Cleaners which claim vast benefits and speed up by cleaning your Registry. These are all BULL and you would be well advised to ignore them completely. Your Registry will toddle along quite happily with thousands of stray entries.

If the CPU can be considered the Heart of your computer, then the Registry is the Brain and you tamper with it at your own risk.

The following is from a timely article by PC World. Your computer, your choice, but it is strongly recommended that you take notice of this.

[[How Best Do I Clean My Registry?

Lincoln Spector, PC World

Nov 4, 2008 6:23 am

(edited) wants some advice on the safest way to use a Registry cleaner.

Has a surgeon ever told you that, although they're an expert and will do the best they can, the operation still has some inherent risks? Imagine replacing the surgeon with some cheap or free software.

There's no truly safe way to clean your Registry, only safer ways. And since this is an inherently dangerous job, the safest option of all is to not do it . I know some experts say you should clean your Registry regularly to improve performance. I disagree. Clean your Registry only if Windows has a serious problem and nothing else works.]]

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