How Free Is Free Registry Cleaning Software?
If drivers, applications or software were never removed from our computers and we never surfed the net, we would probably never need to clean our registries. Bear in mind spyware and malware are types of software and they are often being removed from our computers. This, in itself, means it is necessary to clean the registry often. Unfortunately, it is also true normal internet surfing will put a strain on a PC’s registry. So, if we don’t clean our registry, corruption will accumulate on our hard drives and the sad fact is, this will cause our computer’s performance to suffer greatly.
The newer operating systems, Windows XP and Vista are so big, their registries become corrupted much more easily than their earlier counterparts, like Windows 98. Because these huge OS’s have to travel further to work around any corruption that may be in its way, the PC will slow down, sometimes, drastically!
If a computer’s registry were left uncleaned, at certain point it could actually render the computer inoperable. So, cleaning the registry regularly with a good registry cleaning program is important. It would be unwise to use a low quality cleaner, such as a free one because as you will soon see, it may not do the job so well and this could also lead to an inoperable computer. Of course, an inoperable computer means there will be valuable files lost. Some of them may be difficult or impossible to replace!
Many times, when a registry is cleaned, especially for the first time, 100’s maybe even 1,000’s of corrupted and missing files are found. This is important to note because any free registry cleaner I have ever seen offers to clean the first 50 of these bad files. Big deal! After that, you have to pay to get any registry corruption repaired.
In order to sign you up as a paid customer so you can get all of your corruption cleaned out, the so called free cleaner enacts a pop-up reminding you you have a corrupted registry and if you don’t buy this free product your computer will likely fail! The pop-up is very annoying and difficult to get rid of.
Have you heard enough? Me too! Still there’s more. To use the previously referred to as free registry cleaner in the first place, you have to register your copy with the company. This means they get your email address so they can send lots of email telling you it’s time to pay for this free product!
These free-in-name-only registry cleaners, at least the ones I’ve seen, are not Vista ready. This, of course will be a concern to you if you are using Vista on your computer, but it also concerns me because if it is not ready for Vista it is probably lacking in other ways as well.
So, is this free registry cleaner really free? No! Not at all! In fact, there a many very reputable, up to date ones that are less expensive and do a much better job. So, let the buyer beware. Read all the fine print before you agree to try anything that is advertised as free.
Going without a registry cleaner in this day and age could be likened to computer infanticide. Choosing one on the sole basis of price is not a wise move, either. If you don’t know which registry cleaner to get, try to find a trusted source who will give you a recommendation. Probably this trusted source should be a computer technician or a friend who has used the product.
To sum it all up, a registry cleaner has become a necessity in recent years because registries get bombarded from all angles these days. One of the angles is spyware which leaves its footprints in the registry after it has been removed and these footprints, which is registry corruption, must be cleaned out. Also, we have learned free registry cleaners are not free and computer owners should look elsewhere for a reliable registry repair program.
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