Registry ... Holy of Holies Windows OS! It is in it that information about all the programs installed on the computer is collected; it is precisely its malfunctions that often lead to very unpleasant consequences. What is surprising that in the ranks of people far from everyday computer routines, even cleaning the registry sometimes acquires almost mystical significance!
What effects are not attributed to this procedure! Say, after it the computer starts to just “fly”, viruses are destroyed, the processor acquires ten additional cores ... In short, cleaning the registry is an incredibly necessary and useful operation that needs to be done at least twenty times a day! Is it so? Let's shed some light on this mystery.
To begin with, the registry in Windows is designed so that each installed program “considers it its duty” to write down dozens of eigenvalues there. Moreover, other applications are written by such "talented" specialists that these tails do not disappear after the removal of such a program by regular means. Naturally, only cleaning the Windows XP registry can help in effectively solving this problem.
In addition, with the excessive growth of the dimensions of this important part of the system, the latter quickly becomes a clumsy and devastated monster. Of course, this statement is most true for XP and earlier versions of the system, while Vista and Win7 are no longer so affected by such dire consequences.
This is largely due to the power of modern computers, which are no longer subject to slowdown due to such trifles. However, if the system is already several years old, and its registry has never been cleaned, it can slowly compete with the tortoise. In this case, cleaning the registry is the only effective way to revive the computer without resorting to a complete reinstall of the entire system.
However, do not believe that a simple cleaning operation will help you bring back to life the system that was completely killed by viruses and playful pens. In such severe cases, only reinstallation will help you. Therefore, in no case do not trust the authors of all kinds of "miraculous" programs that promise an incredible increase in system performance and its complete "optimization".
So we have come to the most important question: “So how and with what can these Augean stables be cleaned”? Gurus say that cleaning the registry may well be done manually ... but a normal person should not do this, since such an operation takes a huge amount of time. Everything else, if a beginner will do this, then the consequences can be completely unpredictable.
That is why we recommend that you use specialized programs. The most famous and effective among them is Ccleaner. This product is completely free, it works quickly and efficiently under all the most common versions of Windows, including Windows 8. With the default settings, nothing will “break” on your system and nothing extra will be removed.
However, there are also situations in which manual cleaning of the registry is unavoidable. For example, users of the Windows 9x-Me line can wait for such a fate, since there simply are no current versions of the corresponding programs for them.