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Registry cleaners are great. They can speed up your laptop or desktop, including by reducing boot time and program loading time, with only a couple of minutes and no hardware cost. It's a bit like defragmenting your hard drive every month, and essential maintenance task.

Registry cleaners, however, give you a greater performance boost with less time spent with your computer bogged down by the maintenance task running in the background. But what is a registry cleaner? It's a program - they range from simple free ware to more expensive suites for admin's. You run the program, follow the instructions, and maybe provide a bit of guidance, and it will remove unused registry keys and data from the windows registry.

The registry is loaded into ram every boot, so the smaller it is the less time is spent loading it into ram during boot up. Registry cleaners can also be used to help do a thorough clean up and removal of spyware and malware. Some cleaners can preform a variety of other tasks that may not be considered strictly cleaning, as well, such as resetting registry keys to the state the were when a program was initially installed. This sometimes returns the program to the same state, should you want that for whatever reason.

A more questionable use of registry cleaners is the circumvention of shareware or trialware limitations. Trialware, shareware, whatever you want to call it, it is that software that allows you to use it but expires after a certain amount of time. The way a program finds the length of time it has been installed is usually by finding the difference between a certain date and the current date, or the number of date changes since the program was installed. In any case the information used is usually stored locally somewhere on the machine, and what the registry is for is - partly - to store data for programs. This includes data such as when the program was first installed, how many days have passed, etc. If this data dissapears, most programs will reset their trial period by writing those data areas with the appropriate data. Use a registry cleaner to delete that data without deleting anything in the registry that you do want, and you might be able to continue using the program.

On older computers the registry may take up enough space that it has a practical effect on the amount of ram used, and therefore how much is left for the user. Cleaning the registry obviously reduces its size, freeing up ram, reducing swapping and speeding up your computer.

Robert Walden is an IT Professional. He also runs a side business of reviewing software.

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