How Free Is Free Registry Cleaning Software?
If drivers, applications or software were never removed from our computers and we never surfed the net, we would probably never need to clean our registries. Bear in mind spyware and malware are types of software and they are often being removed from our computers. This, in itself, means it is necessary to clean the registry often. Unfortunately, it is also true normal internet surfing will put a strain on a PC’s registry. So, if we don’t clean our registry, corruption will accumulate on our hard drives and the sad fact is, this will cause our computer’s performance to suffer greatly.
Computer crashes, errors and generally poor performance results when corruption is allowed to build up in the registry. One of the reasons registry corruption is prevalent in computers these days when it wasn’t so noticeable years ago is because today’s operating systems, Windows XP and Vista are huge when compared with older operating systems such as Windows 98. These huge files make it necessary for an operation to travel a long way to get around corruption before it can be executed and this slows everything down.
If a computer’s registry were left uncleaned, at certain point it could actually render the computer inoperable. So, cleaning the registry regularly with a good registry cleaning program is important. It would be unwise to use a low quality cleaner, such as a free one because as you will soon see, it may not do the job so well and this could also lead to an inoperable computer. Of course, an inoperable computer means there will be valuable files lost. Some of them may be difficult or impossible to replace!
It is not uncommon to find a whole load of registry corruption when a registry is cleaned for the first time. A good registry cleaner may find 100’s of pieces of corruption on its first scan. All the free registry cleaners I have ever seen will clean a total of 50 of these corruptions. That’s it! To get a more thorough cleaning, you must pay.
So that you will be sure to know the free registry cleaner has cleaned all it is going to for free, the registry software will execute a pop-up on you desktop telling you you better buy their product now! This pop-up has no close button and and it seems to follow you around wherever you surf. To get rid of this pop-up you have to go to the task manager (cntrl-alt-del) and try to close it there.
But wait, there’s more! Before you can get your first scan, you have to give the company your E-mail address and this gives this company the okay to badger you some more! So, even if this registry repair software was free, you would still be paying with aggravation.
It is also worth taking note that most of these registry cleaners don’t mention anything about being Vista ready which means they are really not up date cleaners and probably don’t measure up in many other ways, either.
The bottom line is; these free registry cleaners are anything but free. In fact, after the first 50 incidents of corruption are cleaned, the cleaner becomes about the most expensive one on the market!
Going without a registry cleaner in this day and age could be likened to computer infanticide. Choosing one on the sole basis of price is not a wise move, either. If you don’t know which registry cleaner to get, try to find a trusted source who will give you a recommendation. Probably this trusted source should be a computer technician or a friend who has used the product.
In closing, a registry cleaner is an important computer maintenance tool because registries in today’s operating system become corrupted for a number of reasons. One of these reasons is adware and spyware and temporary files are being removed from the hard drive all the time and this leaves corruption in the registry. So, to remove this corruption, a registry cleaner is needed. However, as we have learned, a free one just doesn’t cut the mustard!