By Evan Marshall | Editor

Even if your computer is functioning perfectly according to you, you cannot imagine how many errors it will have in its Windows registry. People who are using their computers for quite a few months, and are hooked up to the Internet most of the time, will definitely have several registry errors. These could be due to programs that were faultily uninstalled (most programs will leave traces on the computer that need to be manually uninstalled later on), lost data that makes some applications useless, Internet cookies, temp files, DLL files, files that got corrupted, spyware, adware and malware that got installed on your computer automatically and even those unwelcome visitors on any computer, the viruses. All these things can make your computer slow over time. Even if you do not notice it, this happens when you are using your computer for a considerable time. And if you neglect this, you will soon become just another sorry victim of the terrible Blue Screen of Death.

Hence, it is very important to clean Windows registry from time to time. In fact, you should make it a habit. Just as you clean your workplace to keep it easily accessible to you, you need to clean out the muck from your computer periodically too. But a very few computer users actually do that. The reason is not because they love to live like slobs, but because they simply do not know how to clean Windows registry.

However, you must know that it is as easy to clean Windows registry as it is to delete a file from your computer. Really! In earlier days, it was necessary to look at the Windows registry manually and delete each file that seemed out of place. This was a very slow process and even caused some fatal errors. Thankfully, today there are registry cleaning applications that make the whole thing a breeze. You get these applications over the Internet and then you have to simply perform three steps to get your whole Windows registry clean as a whistle!

The following are these three steps, which are common features of popular registry cleaning software tools such as Reg Cure, Registry Easy and Error Nuker. You only have to install these programs and then start them. They will do the following:-

1. The first thing they will do is to scan your complete Windows registry. This is an elaborate scan and can take time. Generally, it takes anywhere from two to ten minutes, but that will depend on the size of your drives and the amount of data you have on it.
2. When the scan is complete, the software will show you a list of possible errors. This list will be very exhaustive because it will consist of all the problems that the software has detected. You can select all of them to be fixed, or you can keep some of them which you are not sure of.
3. The final step is to click a button to Fix all Errors. Within a moment, you will have a clean Windows registry and your computer will improve in speed and performance.

With these software applications, you have to do precious little to clean Windows registry. But that may actually help you salvage your computer from death.