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How to Clean Your Windows Registry Files

by capstonecontent on Jan 6, 2012

How to Clean Your Windows Registry Files

What is a Registry Cleaner anyway?

A registry cleaner does just what it says, it cleans up your registry files. But what are registry files? And why should you be concerned with their hygiene?

Wikipedia defines registry files as:

“…a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Microsoft Windows operating system. It contains settings for low-level operating system components as well as the applications running on the platform…”

What does that tell us? Not much. All you really need to know is that sometimes, things get messed up in there.

Which is why you need a good registry cleaner. A registry cleaner is a program that maintains the overall cleanliness and health of your computer’s most important files, your Windows files. Of course, if your running a Mac then this entire post is useless. But many people use a Windows-based operating system which, unfortunately, requires regular...Read More >>



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