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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Do you use a registry cleaner regularly? Are they really essential for the power users among us? I can see how one would be beneficial say if you were fixing up a someone's computer who had been ...

Do you clean your Windows registry often? If you do, you'll likely notice that, despite some claims that it speeds up your computer...it doesn't. In fact, there's a good chance that you didn't notice ...

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 ...

Microsoft recently published a detailed blog post on the various native Windows 11 configuration tools that allow users to tweak and customize Windows. This was the same post we noticed the first ...

As stated in a Microsoft support article, registry cleaners could cause "serious issues" when modifying the registry and that Microsoft does not support the use of these types of tools. Another ...

It is no secret that Windows, like most of the other operating systems, becomes sluggish with usage. After prolonged usage, the machine usually takes forever to boot, and the overall performance of ...