In these times of Internet surfing and often cleanling spyware from our computers, it has become necessary to clean our operating systems of registry corruption regularly. Even though it is somtimes hard to discover where the registry corruption is coming from, it seems to appear on everybody’s hard drive sooner or later. Unfortlunately, registry corruption has the ability to slow our computer down, sometimes even to a complete halt. Registry corruption can even be responsible for the blue screen of death!

Today’s operating systems, Windows XP and Vista are much larger than their earlier counterparts like Windows 98 and 95, for instance. Because of their huge size, the new OS’s will tend to be effected more negatively as it stands to reason that all the software and other types of programs that are compatible with the bigger operating systems are larger as well. Therefore, registry cleanings are becoming more important all the time in order to keep our computers from slowing down, freezing and crashing.

A top notch registry cleaner is not very expensive. This is especially true when its cost is compared to that of your most important computer files that could be lost if your registry were to suffer a complete breakdown. Because of this fact, it is not wise to skimp on registry cleaning by relying on a so called free registry cleaner to do the job of keeping your computer registry in good functioning condition.

I have concluded there is no such thing as a free registry cleaner. I have done so because after examining the terms of all the free programs I have seen, it is clear that these programs are designed to scan the registry for errors and remove the first 50 incidents of corruption it finds for free. Then, the customer must pay to get the rest of the corruption removed. 50 incidents is not a lot.

So that you will be sure to know the free registry cleaner has cleaned all it is going to for free, the registry software will execute a pop-up on you desktop telling you you better buy their product now! This pop-up has no close button and and it seems to follow you around wherever you surf. To get rid of this pop-up you have to go to the task manager (cntrl-alt-del) and try to close it there.

It’s bad enough you only get 50 incidents of registry corruption removed and you have to put up with an annoying pop-up, but the sad saga doesn’t end there. To get your first registry cleaning with a free cleaner, you have to fill out a form and summit it to free registry company. This form, of course, gives them your email address. Needless to say, they will use your email address to remind you to pay up so you can get all your registry corruption cleaned.

I know I’m starting to get picky, but another thing you have to watch out for is a lot of these types of registry fixers are not Vista ready. So, chances are they are not up to date in many other ways as well.

To sum it all up, a free registry cleaner is probably more expensive than the most advanced ones available today. So, does this mean you get what you pay for? Not really; not when the top registry cleaner on the market is less expensive than these so-called free ones.

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.

In closing, a registry cleaner is an important computer maintenance tool because registries in today’s operating system become corrupted for a number of reasons. One of these reasons is adware and spyware and temporary files are being removed from the hard drive all the time and this leaves corruption in the registry. So, to remove this corruption, a registry cleaner is needed. However, as we have learned, a free one just doesn’t cut the mustard!