Registry cleaners are great. They can speed up your laptop or desktop,
including by reducing boot time and program loading time, with only a
couple of minutes and no hardware cost. It's a bit like defragmenting
your hard drive every month, and essential maintenance task.
Registry cleaners, however, give you a greater performance boost with
less time spent with your computer bogged down by the maintenance task
running in the background. But what is a registry cleaner? It's a
program - they range from simple free ware to more expensive suites
for admin's. You run the program, follow the instructions, and maybe
provide a bit of guidance, and it will remove unused registry keys and
data from the windows registry.
The registry is loaded into ram every boot, so the smaller it is the
less time is spent loading it into ram during boot up. Registry
cleaners can also be used to help do a thorough clean up and removal
of spyware and malware. Some cleaners can preform a variety of other
tasks that may not be considered strictly cleaning, as well, such as
resetting registry keys to the state the were when a program was
initially installed. This sometimes returns the program to the same
state, should you want that for whatever reason.
A more questionable use of registry cleaners is the circumvention of
shareware or trialware limitations. Trialware, shareware, whatever you
want to call it, it is that software that allows you to use it but
expires after a certain amount of time. The way a program finds the
length of time it has been installed is usually by finding the
difference between a certain date and the current date, or the number
of date changes since the program was installed. In any case the
information used is usually stored locally somewhere on the machine,
and what the registry is for is - partly - to store data for programs.
This includes data such as when the program was first installed, how
many days have passed, etc. If this data dissapears, most programs
will reset their trial period by writing those data areas with the
appropriate data. Use a registry cleaner to delete that data without
deleting anything in the registry that you do want, and you might be
able to continue using the program.
On older computers the registry may take up enough space that it has a
practical effect on the amount of ram used, and therefore how much is
left for the user. Cleaning the registry obviously reduces its size,
freeing up ram, reducing swapping and speeding up your computer.
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