This is a guest post by James Ricketts from www.Instant-Registry-Fixes.org

What Causes Registry Errors?

Registry repair is an important aspect of any computer repair process—especially when you are trying to fix software errors such as DLL errors, rundll errors, kernel32 errors, and errors due to virus and spyware infections. Since its introduction with the Windows 95 operating system, the registry has been one of the most crucial components of your Windows computer. Although, its features and structure has changed with each new operating system, its basic look and feel has remained the same.

The registry of a Windows system comprises all configuration information regarding software and hardware installed on your PC. Simply stated, the registry is the brain of your Windows system. Every application you open, every configuration change you make, any file you access, or Website you open, basically anything and everything you do on your computer has to consult the registry before performing the desired action. In the process, a large number of information is added and removed from the registry in just a few minutes. In due course, a large number of obsolete, unwanted, and redundant information accumulates in the registry. This clutters and fragments the registry and leads to its unwarranted growth. A large and cluttered registry gets corrupted easily and will generate frequent system errors on the system.

How A Registry Cleaner Helps

Due to the large number of problems associated with the registry, and no specific registry maintenance tool available within Windows, a large number of third-party registry cleaners have become available. A registry cleaner frees the registry from all kinds of problems and help you with computer repair. Registry cleaners automate the process of registry clean up and repair, thereby helping you to restore your PC to its original working state without much effort.

Using a reliable registry cleaner, the XP registry can be easily scanned thoroughly for errors and all unwanted, obsolete, and incorrect information can be removed from it. Almost all registry cleaners provide you with two ways to deal with registry errors. If you are a novice user, you can use the automatic scan and repair option. Using this option, you can let your registry cleaner automatically search for errors within the registry and remove them. The second method is manual. If you choose this option, your registry cleaner will still perform an automatic scan of the registry, but all the errors will be displayed on the screen. You can scan through the displayed errors and choose the ones you want to delete and the ones you want to retain.

Due to the importance of the registry in the working of your Windows computer, it is important for you to maintain regular registry backups. Fortunately, making registry backups using a registry cleaner is quite simple. Many advanced registry cleaners enable you to make selective registry backups, or backups of only that part of the registry where you are going to make a change. The selective backup option enables you to undo only a specific change without affecting any other part of the registry.

One of the best options that your registry cleaner offers is the registry defragment tool. Using this tool, you can compress your registry to reduce its file size. The tool also helps you re-index the registry files to make them contiguous. Overall, defragging helps in enhancing the data access time, thus speeding up your PC.

Many malware programs such as spyware, adware, and viruses add non-removable embedded keys within the registry. These keys are quite difficult to detect, which makes the task of removing malware from your system almost impossible. However, with an advanced registry cleaner in hand, you can easily detect these malicious registry keys and remove them from your system.

Thus, with a reliable and efficient registry cleaner in hand, you can not only clean up the registry, but also optimize your computer and keep it free from troublesome errors. Oh, and check out the blog of Dan Neumeister.