In this day and age, computers play a crucial role in our lives. People from all walks of life rely on computers to perform both personal and business related tasks. It can be very frustrating when something that is so important to us, refuses to start or deteriorates in its performance. Just like your car, your computer also requires regular maintenance to keep it working at its highest level. Listed below are some of the tasks that you can perform to keep your PC in good health and fix any Windows errors:
- Keep your PC clean and free of dust by lightly vacuuming it periodically.
- Run PC and hard disk diagnostic utilities such as Scandisk, Disk Defragmenter, and Disk Cleanup to keep your system files and physical hard disk in good health.
- Run regular antivirus scans to keep your PC free from errors.
- Use registry tools to keep the registry free from errors.
In this article, we will concentrate on the uses of registry tools and programs in keeping the system registry error-free.
Causes of Registry Errors
8 out of every 10 problems on your PC are due to errors in the registry. Registry problems are a result of the accumulation of large quantities of outdated, invalid, corrupt, and unnecessary entries in the registry. The registry is a central repository of all configuration information on your XP computer, and there is not a single task that you can perform without making an entry in the registry or referring to an entry already contained within it. Even malware such as viruses and spyware make an entry within the registry to perform their malicious activities.
The accumulation of unwanted data in the registry leads to its unwarranted growth and eventually corrupts and damages it. An unstable and erroneous registry affects system performance and reduces your computing capabilities considerably. This makes it very important for you to regularly clean the registry to keep it free from unwanted information.
Uses of Registry Cleaners
Manual registry maintenance with the help of Registry Editor (regedit) is possible but quite tedious and risky. Any false move can render your system more useless than it was before. Therefore, the best way to deal with registry problems is to use tools that are specially designed to help you deal with such problems. You can easily search for and download a registry cleaner tool from the Internet. Some of the top benefits of registry cleaners are listed below.
- Most of the registry cleaners are GUI-based that makes them easy-to-use. Even novice users with no technical knowledge can use registry cleaners to fix Windows registry.
- Registry cleaners usually come equipped with automatic scan capabilities that enable you to fix registry errors in just a few mouse clicks.
- Advanced registry cleaners also comprise manual cleanup tool. This tool scans and analyses the registry for errors and displays the results in a new window. You can then browse through the results and choose the errors you want to remove.
- Using registry cleaners you can fix Windows errors, such as fix rundll errors, DLL errors, runtime errors and ActiveX errors. In other words, by using a registry cleaner you not only get an healthy registry but also an error-free system.
- Registry cleaners enable you to make both full and selective backups of the registry before you make any changes to it. This way, you can restore your registry in case something goes wrong with the changes.
- Defragment tool included with many registry cleaners enable you to reindex the registry files to increase the data access time. They also help in removing registry holes—vacant spaces left behind by deleted entries—and help you in maintaining a compact registry.
- Advanced registry cleaners enable you to remove embedded keys, which are usually added by various freeware and shareware applications to maintain license information. These keys are also used by spyware to store malicious entries.
- Good registry cleaners also enable you to perform various other system maintenance tasks such as manage startup programs, Browser Help Objects (BHOs), program shortcuts, orphan system files, and Internet Explorer files (History and Cache).
Registry cleaners play a very important role in your regular system maintenance activities. They help you keep your registry error-free and compact. This, in turn, keeps your system in good health and at its optimal working performance. 
