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No matter what anyone tells you… aside from me of course as I know more than all of them and their respective mothers put together of course… your registry is the lifeblood of your computer.

If your computer slows down, penny to a pinch of snuff that your registry is at least partially to blame. Computer keeps crashing? Could be a fragmented registry.

Now you’d be correct in googling registry problems and finding yourself looking at some tech speak that seems to be capable of instructing you in how to hack in to the pentagon but it doesn’t have to be like this.

Viruses can nest in your registry, trojan horses and all kinds of nasties so you are going to have to look into your registry at some point if you are at all serious about your computer.

So what’s the solution? Get a registry program. NtRegOpt is brilliant for XP but won’t fix problems (Vista and Windows 7 claim to have it as part of their OS as does XP come to think of it but for some reason they don’t seem to work as well as the stand alone version). PC Matic will try to fix your registry and to optimise it, that one is a good choice as is it’s cheaper and lighter sibling Optimizer. As for other programs, I cannot vouch. Just make sure you don’t buy or install just any old program which promises to fix your registry. This stuff is serious. Get it wrong and you may be left with no other option but to format and start again from scratch!! Get it right however and you’ll breathe new life into your PC.

I know. It happened to me this morning at work. PC dies during startup, restarts itself claiming to have fixed it’s registry (also asking me to activate windows which is odd on a machine which has been running for like 3-4 years straight) but it’s been slow recently so I figure to do belt and braces and use NTRegOpt. After the restart the PC is far more slick and responsive.

So yeah, theregistry is important.