By Charles Millton

• Have you noticed a decrease in the speed of your computer’s processing?
  Is it working more slowly than how it used to work when it was new? Is your
  computer taking a lot of time for booting and starting up?
• Do a number of your programs turn unresponsive while you are working on
  them and have to be forcibly shut down without saving changes?
• Are your music and media files taking ages to open up?
• Does your system keep freezing up while you are working and has to be restarted?
• Do you see a blue screen full of messages when starting up your system?
• Do you get DLL and other system related error messages?
• Do you get prompts telling you that some operating system files cannot be
  found or are corrupt while booting up your system?

In case your answer to one or more of the above mentioned questions is yes,
then your computer is having registry problems. The registry is a very critical
component of a Windows operating system. It is the system’s database of
all the information that it needs regarding the hardware, software and settings
etcetera. All changes in hardware and software are noted in the registry. Over
a period a time, the registry becomes full of information, a lot of which is
invalid, corrupt or redundant. Therefore, it becomes absolutely necessary to
repair and clean the registry after a certain period of computer usage.

Fixing errors in your registry has become quite easy because of the availability
of registry cleaning and repairing software. A large number of registry cleaning
software is available online and all you need to do to fix your windows registry
is to download one on your computer. Some of the most recommended software programs
for fixing up a registry are Reg Cure, Reg Sweep, Error Nuker, Registry Easy,
Reg Clean and Registry Repair Pro.

Once you have downloaded the program on your system, install and run it. If
you are planning to clean up or edit your registry using the program, then it
is advised that you create a backup of your current registry before making any
changes to it. This might be required in case the system becomes unstable after
registry repair.

After the backup is created, then scan your registry for errors using the registry
repair software. A good software will easily provide you with a list of all
the different kinds of errors and anomalies present in your registry. You can
then delete and rectify the errors either manually or automatically by using
your registry repair program.

In order to get the best out of your registry repair exercise, make sure that
you also defragment your registry after repairing it for errors. This will arrange
all the files in your registry in a logical order while creating more space
for storing further information.

Once you have cleaned and defragmented your registry, it can be considered fixed
for good. In order to keep your registry in good shape, keep repairing it at
periodic intervals using a good registry repair software.