Windows Registry Cleaners

Today's computers become easily cluttered with unnecessary files, invalid directories and damaging data. This damages the registry and results in a frustrating poor performance, slowness, error messages and system crashes. Cleaning the registry yourself would take several hours and could seriously damage your computer.

Fortunately there are a great range of effective, fast and safe Windows Registry Cleaners available to download, which are very powerful at repairing and restoring your computer.

Registry Fix is a simple and easy to use registry cleaner. It includes options and features that will help keep your computer running lean and mean but misses out on some extra features you may want in a registry scanning utility.

Registry Fix includes several features such as a well equipped registry cleaner, startup program manager, add/remove program manager and registry backup utility. All of these options are easy to use and accessible within 2 clicks of the main menu. It lacks many of the extra features of some of our higher ranking products though. Extras such as a registry defragger or file shredding utility would help this product quite a bit.

Registry Fix offers the ability to perform full backups and gives basic information on each error it finds, but does not offer any indication of the severity of any of the errors. Because safety is paramount when using any program that might modify your registry, a lack of information could be very serious when using a registry scanning utility.

Registry Fix is a good windows registry cleaner that offers some useful features. It does lack extended features and some basic functions can be difficult to find if you don't know where to look. It also lacks common safety features like automatic backup and error severity. In the overall scheme of things, this is a good product that will help keep your computer clean and running well.

The Windows registry is the central storage area for all the preference and settings files that are created whenever you install a new program, driver, or piece of hardware. Windows constantly accesses the registry while you use your PC, so it's no wonder that registry errors can cause problems.

Another way the registry can impact your PC is if it becomes cluttered with broken or leftover entries. Sometimes when a program is uninstalled it will leave registry entries behind. Over time these leftover broken entries build up and cause the computer to slow down.

Registry entries are stored in HKEY hives. There are six in total. Although the registry is far from perfect, Microsoft is not ditching it anytime soon. Cleaning the registry with a Windows registry cleaner is a great maintenance and upkeep step. Make sure you make a backup of the registry and also make a Windows XP restore point.

We found Registry Fix to be very effective and safe to use.