What are REGISTRY KEYS? How to clean them?

Question

I use WIN XP- SP 2. My McAfee AntiSpyware says my system has over 20,000 registry keys. What is their function? Is it okay to clean them to boost speed? How to get rid of them?

Answer 1

Registries are miniature store houses of configuration information for various applications that reside on your system. The registry is kind of like a switch board that receives information and based upon the input, executes the appropriate output.

The best way to clean up a registry is to make use of a registry cleaner. I have often made use of StompSoft's Registry Repair to clean up my registry. My main reason for this is that this software does not appear to be as aggressive as some registry editors, which is a good thing because sometimes an overaggressive registry cleaner can delete entries that you may have need for. The only other thing that I would mention is that you should make a backup of your registry. This will save you potential trouble should you accidentally delete a registry key that you really needed.

Answer 2

Use the registry key to clean-up the registry. But the registry cleaner will remove those keys which are no more in use. If all of them are in use, then you will not be able to remove anything using the registry cleaner. I think you should also try increasing the registry size. That should solve your problem.

Answer 3

Your Registry is a place where program information is stored. It is normal to have MANY keys. I use CCleaner to scan for Issues and clean them...it works very well.

Answer 4

How have you ever reached the authentic that it should be a registry situation? perchance you should take a seem in journey Viewer to be certain if it has recorded your situation first. initiate->administration Panel and double click on Administrative equipment and decide journey Viewer.

Answer 5

get regvac
it will sweep that registry spotless.

and speed up the programs loading and such.

you'll love it. and its free

Answer 6

don't do that if you don't know where to put your fingers.
you may screw up the whole operating system!

Answer 7

http://www.ccleaner.com

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