It’s almost the end of the year again. My question is: how many applications that you install and uninstall on your Windows machine this year? Do you know that Windows can’t fully clean itself when an application gets uninstalled? Things get cluttered and settings of the old applications were still left on the Windows Registry.
Huh? What is a Windows Registry? It basically is a place that stores all your Windows settings and information, along with the applications’ settings that you have installed in the system. Things go slower when Windows tries to find a specific information in a cluttered registry. Think of it as looking for a piece of cloth on a stack of clothes inside your wardrobe.
If you find that your Windows is starting to take forever to boot up and you understand the Registry Editor, a built-in Windows tool to modify your Windows registry, go now and check the Windows start-up registry area. Chances are you’ll find some craps got installed by Apple and other third party applications without you knowing it.
While you are on the cleaning mood, take your time to visit this site too, RegistryCleanerz.com. It’s being maintained by a few technical people who really know what they are talking about. There are lots of tips on maintaining your Windows health, cleaning your registry, improving the speed of your system, and other great articles on the topic plus some securities issues that you should be aware of.
Let’s pick up your “broom” and start sweeping!
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I have used lot of other tools to clean up the registry. Right now using ccleaner tool.
Will check out this tool as well.
Yeah I love ccleaner and I think it’s the best free cleaner tool out there!
Now you remind me. It’s been a while since I did the ‘house cleaning’.
Busy with the boyfriend? hehe
I try to keep my computer clean on a regular basis. I haven’t formatted in a while, and I’m thinking I should soon. Just can’t bring myself to backing everything up.
You definitely want to keep an eye on what is loading in the Run key of the registry (both for the current user and local machine). Msconfig will let you disable/enable programs that load from the registry without having to worry about any editing.
Yup, thanks for that tip. I have that post about regedit and msconfig some months ago on this blog.
One thing that I love about Vista is that it doesn’t slow down the system as much as XP, even after a year has passed
Well, I could exactly remember when was the last time I’ve ever did any spring cleaning. Oh, I’m on Mac so spring cleaning usually takes a backseat…..
Yan
Bah! Mac Lover, begone!
I wonder how Mac installs their applications though without a registry. Never bother to look for that info up on the net
I tend to clean out my computer every few weeks. Also just visited RegistryCleanerz.com and it was a TIME SAVER! Thanks.