For some reason, there seems to be a cottage industry developing which is all about making registry cleaners seem useless or even worse, a waist of money. Why there are people out there telling stories about the evils of cleaning computer registries, I just don't know.

It just so happens I know from first hand experience registry cleaners do have an important role in the upkeep of today's computers. They should be used regularly and when they are not, a computer could slow down and die altogether.

This article doesn't contain any stat sheets or lab reports of any kind. Being a computer technician, I am concerned with the well-being of computers and it is from this point of view I will make my case.

Seeing is Believing

An engineer can sit in a lab and pour over theoretical computer behavior if he or she would like. However, there is one statistic an engineer will never discover. That is the thousands, yes thousands of satisfied customers who have thanked me for either properly cleaning their computers' registries or in many cases, explaining to them the proper way to use a good commercial registry cleaner.

The plain and simple fact is, registries do become corrupted and when they do, the computer's performance suffers, maybe even to the point of uselessness. The best way to deal with this problem is to use a good registry cleaner.

The newer operating systems, namely Windows XP and Vista corrupt easily, and because these OS's are so huge, a little bit of corruption goes a long way toward deteriorating their performance. As corruption builds up in the registry the computer's speed will suffer, errors will become frequent and the blue screen of death often will occur.

Reality Computing

I work on computers for a living. Would I recommend registry cleaners for no reason? Would I tell a good customer of mine to use one and then have him or her come back to me to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. Sure, if I was stupid! The truth is, I want to keep my good customers happy and I certainly, I do my best not to lead them astray.

Why there are those who have a vendetta against registry cleaners, I simply don't know. These people must have not ever used one. At least, not the ones I would use.

There is no harm that can be done by getting a registry scan on your computer. All the good ones offer a free scan. So, if you find no corruption, you're done. If you do find corruption and your computer isn't performing well, cleaning the registry will no doubt help cure your problem. If it doesn't, they have money back guarantees. So the way I see it, you can't go wrong using registry cleaners. They are an irreplaceable asset for your computer's health.