Cleaning Up Your Windows-Based PC

Cleaning Up Windows Registry

7. Clean all Windows Registry invalid entries. RegSeeker program is a good choice, since it is free (https://www.snapfiles.com/download/dlregseeker.html). Download, install and run it and then click on Clean the Registry and then hit the Ok button. The program will delay a while checking your computer. On the output screen provided by this program, click on Select All and hit the Del key. Just to give you an idea, on our PC this program found over 1,000 invalid entries, see Figure 8.

Figure 8: Deleting invalid Registry entries.

8. Delete invalid Add/Remove entries using RegSeeker. Click on Installed applications then on Invalid Add/Remove entries. The program will present you a report. Click on Select All, Select All then hit the Del key. Just to give you an idea, this software found 24 invalid Add/Remove entries on our PC, see Figure 9.

Figure 9: Deleting invalid Add/Remove entries.

9. Remove programs that are unnecessarily loaded when Windows is started. You can do this using RegSeeker, clicking on Startup entries. This program will show you a list of programs that are run whenever Windows is loaded. Here you have to pay very close attention to not delete any program that is really necessary for your PC to work correctly (e.g., your video card control panel). Select the program you don’t want Windows to load automatically anymore and hit the Del key.