One of the most overlooked and forgotten about parts of system maintenance is of course cleaning your registry out! Even F1 forgot about it and when I was writing this article I reminded him :) Today I'm going to put a little spotlight on what is viewed by many to be the best registry cleaning applications out there. The biggest requirement is for course that a fully working version is FREE! I believe each and every one of these programs are at least worth downloading. I'll go a bit more in depth on them sometime. Today's purposes are just a quick peak at them.

What will we be looking at today?

RegScrubXP 3.25
RegCleaner
EasyCleaner
Microsoft RegClean
WT RegCleanerXP
TweakNow RegCleaner

Every time you run an application it opens up various registry keys. If your registry is alot bigger than it needs to be you can run into quite a few slowdowns. Everything from application load times to bootup times can be affected by this. If you've installed or uninstalled quite a few applications recently or since the last time you cleaned your registry then you'd better go through this article and get your registry cleaned up!

Before doing anything else make a backup of your registry! These programs potentially can prevent some applications from working properly. Do this at your own risk. They worked properly for ME, but your mileage may vary greatly.

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