Think of the registry as an empty attic in a brand new house. At first the attic is spacious and non-cluttered. The paint is fresh and it's a breeze to organize. As time passes your attic begins to fill up with various odds and ends. It acts as a storage area for things that you want to have access to at any given moment. As more items are added and others removed, the attic quickly transforms into an empty and clean room to one of cluttered chaos! Items are scattered about, nothing is organized, and there are dozens or hundreds of items that are so deeply buried that you've completely forgotten about them. Now, just imagine your attic was essential to your ability to function each and every day. If you're required to access the various knick knacks from your attic on a constant basis, you'd find the cluttered mess to slow your progress and impede your performance.

The Windows registry is like the attic in your home. When you start out the registry is clean and organized. Over time, as you install and remove various software from your system, changes are written to the registry. After several months, your efficient windows registry could become a bloated mess of orphaned, corrupt, and irrelevant registry keys that severely impacts system performance.

There are three options to clean your registry and bring your system back to peak performance.

• [Format your computer] and start over
• Search, locate, and [clean your registry keys manually]
• Let an automated software application scan and clean your registry

Formatting your system is probably out of the question, as it would be in almost any instance. Manually searching, locating, and cleaning your registry is a daunting task, to say the least. Not only can manually editing or deleting a registry key cause your system to fail during boot up, it may permanently damage your operating system! Once the OS fails to boot, you're stuck formatting your hard drive and most likely losing all of your valuable data. That leaves us with the third and best option, using a software application to automatically scan and clean your registry for you!

The Reg Cleaner Review takes all of the guess-work (and risk) out of finding a reliable registry cleaning application. We've taken these applications through the paces and tested them under various conditions to ensure they'll perform to your expectations. Click on the "full review" links from the summaries below for full details about each cleaner.

Reg Cleaner Review is here to help you gain control over your registry without the risk and frustration of manual edits!