Helen Powell wants some advice on the safest way to use a Registry cleaner. Has a surgeon ever told you that, although they’re an expert and will do the best they can, the operation still has some ...

Stump the PC Club is a free tech-advice column written by members of the North Orange County Computer Club, which has been in existence since 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org. And don’t forget ...

When old computers used mechanical hard drives as their boot drives, it is conceivable that a large registry could have ...

Making changes to the Windows Registry, that arcane collection of files housed deep within the Windows operating system, can best be characterized as "fools rush in where even experienced gear heads ...

Windows only: If a lot of un- and re-installs left your system a bit messy, Little Registry Cleaner can clean it up, along with startup items and other system utilities. Little Registry Cleaner's ...

The Windows Registry contains information pertaining to drivers and related settings for hardware components; key OS parameters; information about services, protocols, and application data; and much, ...

If you’re using a “registry cleaner” or “disk cleaner” application (CCleaner, Wise Cleaner and Auslogics are three popular examples), you should stop now. You’re wasting your money (up to $30 a year ...

Orphaned registry entries can accumulate to the point your computer's boot time takes a noticeable hit, and improperly removed programs and can amplify the effects of dead-end registry keys by causing ...

The Windows Registry is essential to the proper operation of any Windows machine. It contains information pertaining to drivers and related settings for hardware components; key OS parameters; ...

InformationWeek has a great article comparing ten Windows Registry Cleaning software titles. They tested each title on an identical disk configuration. I made a disk "image" (a bit-for-bit exact copy ...