A Free Registry Scan ” Why Not Get One?
I got a call from a disgruntled computer owner who told me her computer had become unbearably slow. Of course, the first question I had for her was to find out if she was using a virus scan program periodically.
Sometimes people will have one installed and use it but not know they have one at all. The reason for this is both Windows XP and Vista will keep annoying you until you activate the antivirus program that came with the computer when it was new. Then after you do, the program works on autopilot.
In this womans case she was protected against viruses. Also, her virus program was the best one I know of and it protects her computer against malicious types of spyware as well. Spyware will also slow down computer speed.
At this point, I felt strongly she should get her registry scanned to see if registry corruption was what was causing her computer slowness. She told me she did get a registry scan, it showed her registry was quite corrupted but she didnt buy the cleaning function of the registry cleaner because she didnt want to pay the price.
This conversation took place several weeks ago and I have no idea whether or not this woman has cleaned her registry yet. I do know cleaning out that much corruption would have been an excellent choice because even a small amount of corruption can slow down a computer quite a bit. On top of that, buying the license to activate the cleaning function comes with a very reasonable price tag.
You just cant let registry corruption accumulate on your hard drive because before long it will cause the operating system to shut down. After this happens, you may be looking at a reinstall.
Using a good registry cleaner wont assure you the computer will never have a big problem, but geez! Why hurry a catastrophic failure along? Then again, why anyone would put up with a really slow computer when a registry cleaning will make it fast again, I have no Idea.
Anyway, I had made my recommendation to this woman and it really is up to her what she wants to do with her money and her computer. So, I politely wished her the best and then hung up the phone.
If I had registry corruption on my computer but I couldnt afford a registry cleaner, I would not use the computer until I could get the registry cleaned. Registry corruption breeds more registry corruption. So, using this computer will eventually put it out like a light!