How to clean your Windows registry with free registry cleaners

The Windows registry is where programs register themselves with the operating system. Unfortunately, this can be bogged down by adware, viruses, or just too many programs and files. This is how you can clean up your registry and improve your computer's performance.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Internet
• Windows based computer

1. One of the good free registry cleaners I use is the Eusing Free Registry Cleaner. You can download this at http://www.eusing.com.

2. After you download this you should install it, and then click the Scan Registry Issue link. This should bring up a list of all the broken registry items you have.

3. Select all the problems and click Repair Registry Issue. This should clean up all the cruft. Your original registry would be backed up.

4. After you clean up the registry you would need to restart.

5. Another free registry cleaner that works well is CCleaner. You can download this at http://ccleaner.com. The steps to cleaning your registry is similar to the steps of Eusing. It is very easy to figure out.

Tips & Warnings

• You can use both cleaners to clean up your registry further.
• If anything goes wrong with your computer after a registry clean up you should restore your old registry.

Resources

• Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
• CCleaner

[jamesgroover]

on 6/24/2009 My BEST BENES to you!! I did this process and its so easy, it worked really well, and FREEEEE as the day is long!! I have seen other reg cleanware out there and everytime I went to solve the issues it said, "Please pay X dollars" I will be one happy camper when the issues stop with this PC. Thanks!!

[jull14]

on 6/23/2009 Excellent article and very helpful, thanks for sharing with us

[Whitty]

on 2/27/2009 I prefer to use CCleaner and remember to always backup the registry before doing anything to it. When in doubt leave it out!:-) VGood PC DIY