Repair Part
Do Registry Cleaners Work? A Skeptics Look at the Top Registry Repair Programs
I’m a pretty skeptical guy. I avoid fads and new things like a passion and don’t believe there are quick fixes for anything. This is why when all the buzz around registry repair utilities started to build I didn’t believe that they could be a one fix all solution of PC problems.
I did some research but most websites only raved about the big benefits. None presented any of the cons to these computer programs or what they were actually capable of doing to improve PC performance. If I wanted to learn about how these programs could improve performance I was going to have to test it myself. So that’s what I did I setup a comparison of Registry Repair software on my own test PC to decide if these programs really worked. The Results? Well they were actually surprising.
Speed Means Nothing
I timed all of the registry cleaners I tested to see how long they took to do a complete scan. Times for the full scan were all between one and ten minutes long. With most programs a second scan, which I performed each time to double check the number of errors found, seemed to be faster then the first scan.
The performance of a program and speed of a scan were unrelated. In conclusion I decided that the speed the scan completed was in no way relevant to the performance of the software.
More Errors then Repairs
This really surprised me. The number of errors found during the full scan of my computer wasn’t the same number of repairs, or better stated changes made to my registry. The top performing program completed 60-70% of the changes found in the full scan. My assumption is that these programs find as many errors as they can, whether critical or not. The critical errors are fixed, while the ones that don’t really cause any trouble are left alone.
Performance Came from Add-on Features
This was the test that really started to make me more of a believer in registry repair software. At this point I had found tiny improvements in performance after repairing all errors found in a complete scan. Once I started running the file cleaners, start-up folder optimizers and other features of each program I began getting some great results.
My boot time of Windows was reduced, as well as the startup time for many of my programs. I was able to measure performance increase in time.
In the End
While my test PC wasn’t that infected with junk files and registry errors I was able to squeeze out some performance. How ever it wasn’t really from the registry repair portion of each program. The improvement came from running the additional programs that came with the software.
My result suggest that you can see improvement using registry cleaners, but be sure to get one with a refund policy in case you don’t see big changes.
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