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1. #BEST WINDOWS REGISTRY CLEANER RATINGS HOW TO#
2. #BEST WINDOWS REGISTRY CLEANER RATINGS INSTALL#

Registry cleaners hardly make a dent in the registry size as most would not find even 1,000 entries to remove.

The problems that registry cleaners may resolve become less significant for each new version of Windows.

#BEST WINDOWS REGISTRY CLEANER RATINGS HOW TO#

Learn How to Use the Windows Registry Editor (Regedit) in One Easy Lesson.What Everybody Should Know About the Windows Registry.You might want to check out these articles before selecting or using a registry cleaner: Insufficient descriptions of registry issues so may have to use RegEdit to check the keys and values. That may be provided in a later article which explains the risks of cleaning different types of registry keys and values. So I have not provided an evaluation of their comparative cleaning capabilities because it is largely meaningless without a clear understanding of how the registry is used. I found that there is no consensus among the application programmers about what should be in a light clean versus a heavy clean. I did look at the specific keys and values that each application removed.

But I have not tested them against the wide range of applications that you may be using. None of the recommended products caused me any problems in any of the versions I have tested in the last three years. I tested these products by scanning and cleaning the registry using the least and most aggressive settings. Using that same picture, a registry cleaner trims the tree by removing some of the branches and leaves that aren't needed or are damaged. A main branch can have many smaller branches each of which can have many more branches and all of them can have many leaves. The data values or settings are like the leaves and the branches are the keys or indexes to those settings. You can think of the registry as a large tree with many branches and leaves.

#BEST WINDOWS REGISTRY CLEANER RATINGS INSTALL#

When you first install Windows it already included many settings that you might need: about 150,000 in Windows XP, close to 380,000 in Vista, and nearly 450,000 in Windows 7 (all 32-bit versions). Just remember that there are lots of these entries. It mainly stores settings for anything Windows needs to know about: startup settings, program settings, installed components, network connections including the Internet, printer settings, mobile phone and tablet connections, and many other details you're probably not interested in. The registry is a database or a large index of information that is needed for Windows to run.

None of the products properly explain what they are suggesting should be removed and none clearly indicate the risks of such cleaning. Although none of the registry cleaners I recommend here have caused me a problem I have not elected to have an Editor's Choice in this category because I consider that all the registry cleaners fail to provide clear guidance to make registry cleaning a well-informed choice. This ever-present risk of problems is why the "Best Registry Cleaner" is the one that causes the fewest problems, rather than the one that finds the greatest number of registry issues.