Windows registry will grow “dirty” from time to time, so you need to clean up your registry to maintain a healthy registry database. You can do this manually or using registry cleaner. In this article, I will show you 3 most effective way to clean up windows registry.

Method #1 – Backup / Creates Restore Point. You can always backup you registry entries with regedit, restore them when you need to rollback the registry to previous state during backup, this is same with restore point introduced in Windows ME and XP.

Method #2 – Keep Registry History. You should be backup your Windows registry before any software install, and compare the registry entries whenever you need to repair the registry manually. This is the most time consuming way to clean up your registry, I would only recommend it if you know what you are doing!

Method #3 – Use only commercial and proven registry cleaner to help you clean up, repair your registry! There are tons of registry cleaners around on the Internet, but you should only use proven and reliable registry cleaner, you really don’t want any immature software to mess with your windows registry, because you might seriously damage some of your software or even Windows itself.

Try these 3 methods, decide on which helps you best and use them to maintain a clean and fast registry. I would highly recommend you to leverage on commercial registry cleaners only, if you want to try freeware, use them carefully and backup before trying anything!

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