What's Wrong with my Computer? It happens every day. People get frustrated with their slow computers, so they go to the store to buy a new one. Of course, the retails don't mind, but what they don't tell their customers is that most computers that run slowly haven't become obsolete, they've just become slow due to a disorganized Windows Registry.

It's time to renovate your PC. Computers need routine maintenance just like a car. This is because the activities done on a Computer affect the Windows Registry, eroding its ability to organize computer settings. After installing and uninstalling software, connecting and disconnecting hardware, changing user settings, and using poorly-designed programs ...well, a computer just gets confused. This is because all of these activities add and subtract entries. The organized scheme of the Registry becomes a jumble of outdated, corrupted, and mismatched settings.

The Windows Registry is an advanced database that stores all of your computer's settings. It is an integral part of Windows that organizes system configurations.

So What is the Windows Registry Anyway?
The Windows Registry is an advanced but complicated library that stores all of your PC's settings and system configurations. It doesn't have any files in it, but instead, an intricate network of entries that tell your computer how it should act, look, and communicate with all of its constituent programs. As one could guess, this makes the Registry extraordinarily important to the fluid operations of a PC. So when the Registry becomes disorganized, cluttered, or signals from the Registry get misdirected, it causes problems. Slow reaction time, sluggish loading and closing of programs, error messages ... these are all symptoms of a corrupted Registry.

How does my Registry get corrupted?
In many ways the Windows Registry is analogous to a captain in a ship. It tells how and where files are to be stored, how the computer is to respond to other hardware, and how the settings should be organized for optimal performance. It also stores user settings, those preferences in appearance, sound and shortcuts that make Windows customizable. Every time the user changes one of these preferences, installs or uninstalls software, connects a new piece of hardware, or even moves a shortcut from one directory to another, the Registry is altered. The ship's captain becomes confused and disoriented, sending out commands to the wrong components or asking for programs that are no longer on board.

How does a Corrupted Registry affect PC Performance?
The multiple alterations made in the Windows Registry can, over time, have a negative effect on the Registry's performance. This isn't a flaw in the program, but a unavoidable result of operating a computer. The Registry is not self-managing; it has no control over what's done in the PC, but it organizes the settings that you make. If uninstalling a program removes the program's files, but leaves Registry entries, then those entries become pointless. If a shortcut is made, but then moved, often the original shortcut is left behind. If a driver is updated, but the old version isn't erased, the old version becomes redundant. At first a few extraneous entries don't matter, but over months and years the excess data begins to pile up. The Registry has trouble figuring out which settings are valid and which one's aren't. This causes the PC to slow down and act buggy.

How do I know if my Windows registry is corrupt?
Since the daily use of a computer causes the Registry to become more and more corrupted, the odds are that if you've been operating a PC for some time, it has accumulated various errors in the Registry. The result is the chronic behavior that frustrates so many of todays computer users. The computer acts slowly, the programs won't load or close quickly, and – of the problem progresses – you start to see those weird and unhelpful error messages. If enough redundant and corrupted entries remain, the computer may even start to give up, burdening users with infuriating crashes and computer freezes.

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