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A Quick Cure for Ailing Windows PCs

by Jon Chase on October 27, 2009 at 06:45 AM

If you've spent any length of time with a Windows machine, you've heard the term "registry" bandied about -- usually accompanied with curse words. The registry is often the starting point of conflicts that bollock up your PC, so cleaning it out is something that will make your world a much happier place. Now, messing with the registry can utterly and permanently destroy your PC, so you are warned not to fiddle haphazardly. Before trying anything, make a full backup of your Registry, and only delete listings you are 100-percent sure are no longer used or outdated. And definitely use a cleaning program rather than search-and-destroying your way through. For a useful guide and reviews of cleaner applications, hit this article.

Tags: clean, techtip, windows registry, WindowsRegistry

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