Registry cleaning is one of the major features of many PC cleaners, but it has never really been proven to do anything to speed up your PC. If you’re experiencing slower than usual boot times and unresponsive programs, there are other culprits that lurk behind the scenes causing these frustrating issues. The fact is, your PC doesn’t slow down because your hard drive has become ‘cluttered’ with miscellaneous, unknown files. It makes a certain amount of logical sense on the surface, but do the claims really hold up under investigation? There is a fairly large industry built around programs that claim to speed up your PC by cleaning out old files, registry entries, and other miscellaneous junk that supposedly builds up over time from normal daily computer use. The test computer used is relatively new, but has been in heavy usage and has not been cleaned recently. All the opinions and experiences are my own. Note: none of the companies mentioned in this review have provided me with special consideration or compensation for writing this roundup review. I bring all that knowledge and experience to this review so that you won’t have to spend years learning everything you’ll need to know to separate the good programs from the bad. I’ve tried a range of PC cleaning and optimization apps over the course of my hobby and my career, with varying degrees of success – some are useful, and others are a waste of time. I use my desktops both for work and for play, and I expect the very best from them no matter what I’m doing. In more modern times, I build all of my desktop computers myself from individual components, and I apply that same meticulous care to make sure they operate at peak performance on the software side of things as well. Admittedly, there wasn’t much you could do with Windows back then (and I was a kid), but starting that early has given me a broad perspective on what’s possible with the PC environment and how far we’ve come since the early days. Hi, my name is Thomas Boldt, and I’ve been a PC user since the days of Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS.
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