A Free Computer Scan Could Be a Very Big Bargain
A person called me up to tell me her computer was running very slowly. The first thing I asked her was if she had a virus scanner installed on her computer and if she had been using it.
I have actually talked to people who were protected against viruses and didnt know they were because they bought the computer all set up with a virus scanner. Believe me, if you have Window XP or Vista and you dont have an antivirus program running in the background, these operating systems will let you know about it!
In this womans case she was protected against viruses. Also, her virus program was the best one I know of and it protects her computer against malicious types of spyware as well. Spyware will also slow down computer speed.
At this point, I felt strongly she should get her registry scanned to see if registry corruption was what was causing her computer slowness. She told me she did get a registry scan, it showed her registry was quite corrupted but she didnt buy the cleaning function of the registry cleaner because she didnt want to pay the price.
I really am just about certain when she finally gets her registry cleaned, she will find the computer will get all its speed back. However, I dont know if she has or is intending to ever purchase the cleaning activation license for her computer. It would be the right choice because it will fix her problem and the license really isnt at all costly.
For certain, I know registry corruption, if left to build for a long period, has the ability to cripple a computer to the point the hard drive will need to be reformatted and Ive seen it happen.
Using a good registry cleaner wont assure you the computer will never have a big problem, but geez! Why hurry a catastrophic failure along? Then again, why anyone would put up with a really slow computer when a registry cleaning will make it fast again, I have no Idea.
Anyway, I had made my recommendation to this woman and it really is up to her what she wants to do with her money and her computer. So, I politely wished her the best and then hung up the phone.
Still, I cant help thinking about the fact registry corruption tends to multiply itself. So, it is a great idea not to operate a computer while it has a very corrupt registry, because all of a sudden and without warning that computer could go down for the count!
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