Back in the Windows 95/98 days, computer viruses and spyware were the biggest stumbling blocks to smooth computing. However, now there is a new computer enemy in town. Its name is registry corruption.

With today’s operating systems being so enormous compared to the old Windows 95/98 size, a corrupt registry gets in the way of our computing more than it used to. Though there are new viruses that come out every day, our technology seems to be able to keep up with them better than in years past. Also, computer operators are better educated as to how to keep a virus from being executed on their computer.

So, what harm can registry corruption cause, what causes registry corruption and most of all what can we do about it? In this article, we’re going to discuss these things and see if we can make some sense of them.

There is Always Something Entering Our Registries

Any time we add a program or any type of software to a computer, entries are put in the registry. These entries are used to direct the operating system and aid it in carrying out its commands. However, when the program or software is removed or upgraded these entries become false pointers that harm the operating system’s efficiency. These types of entries are known as registry corruption.

Another kind of registry corruption is added to our registries when we surf the Net. This is the temporary computer files that remain after we are through surfing. After these files are deleted, their registry entries remain.

Viruses, spyware, adware and malware are programs that add entries to the registry as well. These entries still remain after the spyware and viruses are gone. This happens because although spyware and viruses add entries to the registry, when your spyware/virus cleaner removes the spyware and the viruses, it is incapable of removing the registry corruption they leave behind.

It has to be noted that as time goes on, this registry corruption causes the computer to act up. The computer will probably slow down at first. More corruption will cause the computer to slow down and after the corruption gets even more plentiful the computer is likely to suffer crashes.

So, What Do I Do?

What all this means is, in today’s world we have many more programs placing entries in the registry than ever before. Probably there are thousands of times more entries being placed in the registry than there were 10 years ago. Add to this fact that the newer Windows operating systems, namely Windows Vista and XP are way larger than the early Windows operating systems and you can see how registry corruption has become a real issue!

It is easy enough to take care of registry corruption, just install a good registry cleaner on your computer and run it periodically. The best time to run a registry cleaner is after spyware has been removed. You do have a good spyware cleaner installed on your computer; don’t you?

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