NOTE: CAUTION! Working with your system registry is potentially VERY dangerous! Use extreme caution or have a professional perform the work for you.

As the ‘command control center’ or main database of your operating system your computer’s registry is vital to the performance of your system. You should make sure that you regularly repair your computer’s registry as it contains property settings, user profiles and hardware information and, in short, it tells your computer how to act, when to do it and what to do. The information stored in your registry is used to keep your Windows system running smoothly. These days the World Wide Web is rife with ways to enhance or ‘tweak’ your registry settings, the goal being to fix errors, remove unnecessary files and streamline the workings of your operating system but unless you know what you are doing the results could be disastrous. So how can you make sure you repair your computer’s registry with as little fuss as possible?

Downloading and installing or uninstalling software programs, hard drive crashes and viruses or spyware or even trying to fix the registry with little or no experience can all compromise your registry settings – changing its normal functioning and leading to a loss of performance quality. When this happens your computer will exhibit certain symptoms that may indicate that you need to take steps top repair your computer’s registry.

System crashes & Your Registry

How do you know if your registry is corrupt? You