Application Error

The Windows Registry lies at the heart of your PC’s operating system. In its hierarchical structures it holds all the settings needed to keep your computer up and running at peak levels of performance – everything from the screensaver you like to the settings the hardware needs to run efficiently.

The problem is that the registry is prone to errors. Every time you change a preference, the relevant entry in the registry is changed. Every time you install a piece of software, new keys are created, to be removed once you uninstall it.

This is where errors creep in. Uninstalled software sometimes leaves unused keys behind, changed settings cause fragmentation of the registry and the effect is a large, unwieldy registry containing dud information or, worse, conflicting settings.

Registry cleaners are designed to tune your PC and keep it purring healthily under the bonnet. There are a lot of them about, but we are talking about the health of your PC here. It pays to use a reliable tool like Uniblue’s registry cleaner. The problem with much of the free software out there on the web is two-fold – first, the processes for the detection of invalid keys is often over-cautious, mis-categorizing perfectly valid keys as problems.

Secondly, most of the free cleaners do not defragment the registry. This means that Windows will take a long time to work through the settings, slowing the PC down. Worse, a number of the free cleaners have been used to carry malware and viruses, taking advantage of their access to the core of the operating system to slip a nasty payload in.

So to keep your registry healthy and your PC running at peak performance, choose a reliable utility like Uniblue’s RegistryBooster which not only keeps your PC optimized and your registry defragmented, but also keeps it safe by taking backups before it makes any changes.

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