In today’s newer, larger operating systems, registry corruption is a very real problem. Because of this, the registry should be cleaned periodically. Some think registry cleaning is not a needed operation because in years past a PC’s performance never deteriorated due to registry corruption. However, registry corruption in Windows XP and Vista cause a significant drop-off in performance.

Registry files are huge and complex. Some of these files tell each command a computer operation is carrying out where it will find its next needed file. You can think of these files as pointers.

Registry Corruption Causes Slowdowns

In a very simplified sense, registry corruption is nothing more than pointers that leads to either the wrong place or no place at all. With the older smaller operating systems the amount of time it took to carry out a few false operations was negligible.

Because Windows XP and Vista are so large, false pointers waste a lot of the computer’s time and resources doing operations that are in no way helpful. Such operations need to be repeated again and again until the right pointer has shown the operating system the correct path. Of course, this will make the computer appear to be operating slowly.

So you can see, the overall effect registry corruption has on a computer is that is slows down its operations. Sometimes this slow down will not be too noticeable. However, it is possible for registry corruption to slow the computer to the point it makes it difficult to use the computer at all. Registry corruption also makes a computer prone to errors and even the blue screen of death.

Viruses and Spyware

In general, the problems a corrupt registry causes mocks those of a computer that is infected with viruses or spyware. Viruses and spyware will also cause your computer operations to slow down. This is because the virus or spyware or whatever parasite is infecting your computer will steal some or all your computers resources.

If all, or a high percentage of your computer’s resources are being used spyware and viruses, your computer won’t be able to perform any task, even an easy one like connect to a Web site. The way to check to see how many resources are being used is to press ctrl-alt-del, which will open up your task manager in Windows XP. If you have Vista, you will have choose “open task manager after you press ctrl-alt-del.

If a lot of your computer’s resources were being used and you tried to get the computer to do any task, like open up your word processor, you would see your computer would open it very slowly, if it was able to do it at all.

The bottom line is, spyware and viruses make a computer preform poorly. Part of this poor performance may be errors and crashes, or the computer may be just plain slow. The confusing thing is a corrupted registry will make a computer behave in the same way for different reasons.

For optimum computer performance, you must not only keep your computer free of spyware and viruses, you must also keep it free of registry corruption. Doing so will keep your computer speed like it was when it was new and it will keep crashes to a minimum.

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