| Most people don't even know why they should clean | | | | it onto your desktop in a place where you can find it. |
| out their registry, let alone how to do it. Your PC | | | | Once you have saved it you have completed backing |
| registry is the database responsible for storing all the | | | | up your registry. |
| information for the PC. | | | | Now to manually clean out your registry you will have |
| Unfortunately, the PC registry can get corrupted by a | | | | to go to the folders of your registry window. You will |
| number of things, but mainly by viruses. When it come | | | | notice a directory that displays folders that have |
| to cleaning out your registry you have two options. | | | | folders that have names such as |
| You can either do it yourself manually or you can use | | | | "HKEY_CURRENT_USER". |
| a registry cleaning software to do it automatically. | | | | You will have to click on the plus sign that is next to |
| When you decide to clean out your registry the first | | | | the folders. This will expand a folder out so you can |
| thing you have to do is backup the registry. Backing up | | | | take a better look at a section in the registry editor. |
| your registry is needed so if you make a mistake and | | | | Look for the folder known as |
| remove files that were needed you can start all over | | | | "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" since this folder is |
| with no problem. | | | | normally needed to be cleaned when cleaning out the |
| To do this you will need to go to your desktop and | | | | registry. |
| click "Start". Now you will need to click on "Run". Once | | | | If cleaning out your registry manually is a process you |
| you have done so a window ill popup and will let you | | | | are not comfortable doing then the best solution is let a |
| put in the command you want to run. | | | | software to do the process for you. You can use a |
| The command you are going to want to type in is | | | | registry cleaning software to clean out your registry |
| "regedit" and then click "OK". Once you have done so | | | | within a matter of minutes. These softwares are |
| your registry editor window will pop up. You will have | | | | especially useful for those who have a fear of |
| to click "File" and then go to Export. | | | | messing up their registry. |
| Put in a name for your exported registry file and save | | | | |