Improve Your PC Speed - Step 5
Download and Run a Registry Cleanup Tool
A registry cleanup tool is a program that runs through your registry (a fancy name for a configuration file) looking for errors and correcting them. There are several very good ones on the market that offer you a trial, but some of them do require you to purchase the entire package before getting full functionality. We have found no free tools that perform a decent job of cleaning your registry, but there are a couple of full features trials that will work nicely the first time, which is generally all you need.
The registry cleaner that we recommend is again from Ace Utilities: it is called Registry TuneUp. At the time of this writing, the trial version lasts for about 30 days, they may have changed it by the time you read this. Not only does it actually clean the registry for you, it will tell you why each registry entry that it removes is not needed. There are several features available for advanced users, but you will generally not need them.
When you first run Registry TuneUp, you will be asked to create a system restore point - this is HIGHLY recommended. In general, it is always a good idea to create a restore point because if something goes wrong, you can always go back to a configuration that works - a very good thing.
You will also be asked if you would like to run in expert mode - decline. Click on Finish, and you will be presented with the main Registry TuneUp window. From here, follow these steps:
- Click Scan - you will see a Registry TuneUp running in the background with a small window asking you to wait.
- When the application is finished, you will be presented with a dialog asking you to delete all the bad entries that the tool found. Click ‘Remove’
- There is no step three - you’re done!
This is one of the simplest tools available for cleaning your registry - it works very well.
You can download Registry TuneUp by going to this URL:
http://www.acelogix.com/regtune.html
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