How can I identify what to get rid of in my Windows Registry?
December 28th, 2009 | by admin |My computer has been bogging down and getting really slow. I use 2 spyware programs but still it is slow. I understand that the windows registry has things in it that spyware doesn’t pick up. Thanks for any help.
whooaaaa DO NOT DELETE STUFF OUT OF THE REGISTRY!
your question alone suggests that you don’t know a massive amount about computers, the registry is a huge maze of keys and values that even the most techy person only has a vague knowledge of – if you go in there and start deleting stuff willy nilly i can guarantee you’re going to f*ck up your system really badly.
by all means run anti-spyware programs and anti-virus programs but don’t go near the registry cos if you don’t know what you’re doing it’ll cost you a bomb to have your pc fixed by a pro when you kill it by deleting something you shouldn’t.
i fix pc’s all the time, and i’ve never had anything spyware related that needed me to go into the registry – most things can be fixed purely at disk level.
by the way, if one of the programs you’re running isn’t ad-aware then you’ve the wrong set of spyware programs on the job.
One Response to “How can I identify what to get rid of in my Windows Registry?”
By peekay on Dec 29, 2009 | Reply
whooaaaa DO NOT DELETE STUFF OUT OF THE REGISTRY!
your question alone suggests that you don’t know a massive amount about computers, the registry is a huge maze of keys and values that even the most techy person only has a vague knowledge of – if you go in there and start deleting stuff willy nilly i can guarantee you’re going to f*ck up your system really badly.
by all means run anti-spyware programs and anti-virus programs but don’t go near the registry cos if you don’t know what you’re doing it’ll cost you a bomb to have your pc fixed by a pro when you kill it by deleting something you shouldn’t.
i fix pc’s all the time, and i’ve never had anything spyware related that needed me to go into the registry – most things can be fixed purely at disk level.
by the way, if one of the programs you’re running isn’t ad-aware then you’ve the wrong set of spyware programs on the job.
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