How to Clean a Computer's Registry

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to cleanup a computer's registry. Let's go to our computer and we're going to download a program that Microsoft released a while ago. Click on your Start button, let's open up our web browser and this program was called Microsoft RegClean. Just do a search on a website like Google for Microsoft RegClean download. Now you're going to get a lot of results because it's available on a bunch of different sites. I kind of like MajorGeeks.com. That was also the first one that popped up. Basically if you see that it's RegClean 4.1, then you're going to want to click on one of these download links under it. I'm just going to click one of these here and it's going to start downloading that RegClean program. Now I already have it downloaded, just going to minimize this and I'm going to run RegClean.exe. Now when it opens it's going to scan my registry for any problems that it knows it can fix. This may take a little bit of time to run through this beginning process here. Now once it has finished scanning, you'll be presented with this button here that allows you to click and it says fix errors. Just click that and it has fixed any problem that it encountered and it's also created an undo file for you. If you run into any problems after running this RegClean program, you can just double click on that undo file and it will reload the registry everything that it changed back to how it was before you ran the program. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to cleanup the Windows registry."