Important Features to Look For in a Registry Cleaner

Posted: December 25th, 2011

Not all registry cleaners are created equal. While many come with at least the same basic features and functions, the similarities often end there. To help you separate the vital functions from the extraneous one, we’ve compiled this list of the most important features to look for in a registry cleaner.

Accessibility
Most users are going to have difficulty understanding what each registry entry does and its importance, so it’s vital for a good registry program to clearly mark the importance of each entry and its overall function. This should give the user enough information to be able to make an informed decision about what they want to do after the results of a scan.

Updates
The dynamics of computer hardware and software are constantly changing and evolving, and this makes find a program that regularly updates to stay on top of the latest trends a must. Updates should be frequent enough that performance is optimized and unobtrusive enough that you won’t even know they’re happening.

Performance Analysis
A good registry cleaner will be confident in its ability to improve system performance and should be willing to prove it. By monitoring and keeping track of your system start up time, and the launch times and execution of other important system functions, it should be able to show you the increase in performance that has been achieved courtesy of its use. Even when that increase appears only marginal, say a few seconds, that indicates a much improved registry and overall system performance.

Automatic Backups
Registry values are a sensitive thing that can affect the performance of any and all facets of your computer. While a good cleaner should not do anything it (and you) will regret, it should automatically make a backup in the event that something goes horribly awry, and changes made to the registry need to be reverted.

These are a few key things to look for when choosing a registry cleaner such as our own Registry Commander, and features which we feel should not be underestimated.

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