How to Easily Clean Your Windows Registry

The registry is a database containing information about your computer and its various configuration settings. Each time you install a piece of software new values are added to the registry.

Why clean it?

When you uninstall programs often, the uninstall utility does not remove the registry keys created by the installation! In addition, the registery can find information about your files. For example, you just download a zip file from the Internet that you remove thereafter. In the registery, there is a key that contains the path of this file that is not deleted at the destruction of the file. After some time, the entries in the registry build up and slow down your PC!

How will RegClean clean the registry?

The software is going to get rid of old obsolete entries. It retrieves the file name in the directory, and then if the file no longer exists, it will remove the key.

Using RegClean:

RegClean can be downloaded from here:

http://www.regclean.com/

Launch the program after accepting the terms of use of the software.

To clean the registery, go to the Tools menu, cleaning the registry, do everything.

The program will be analyzing all the keys inside the registry.

Once the scan is complete, the software displays the entries that it found to be invalid. Press Ctrl+A to select all and click the Delete button selection at the bottom right. This will delete the invalid entries.

Your registry will now be cleaner and more efficient than before.

After cleaning the registry it is possible that some programs fail to work. This is because you may have deleted a valid entry and not an obsolete one. But don't worry! In several years of using this software, I have never had any problems, but if you experience any kind of malfunction after cleaning the registry, it is possible to restore key removed.

To do this go to the "Backups" tab in RegClean.

Select the last backup in the list.

Then click the Restore button in the bottom right.

Now all the keys that were removed before will be restore to their rightful place. You can then go back in and manually select which entries you want to clean. Making sure that you leave the entry associated with the program that failed to work. You should always be careful when modifying the registry. Be sure to use the backup feature often!