Before discussing Registry Cleaning and Maintenance it should be prefaced with a very stern warning. Monkeying around with your computer registry is probably similar to opening the hood of your car and removing various components and wires without knowing what you are doing. The risk and potential is irrepairable damage to your operating system and data. I would recommend that if you are to the point where you feel you need a registry cleaner, install it with the help of a solid professional, such as a “rent-a-geek” or a colleague or friend you are confident knows his or her way around the computer operating system.

Another very strong recommendation is that before you apply a registry cleaner you back up your volatile data, financial data, emails, email contacts, pictures, music, documents and anything else that if you destroy your operating system and have to reinstall it from the manufacturers recovery software, you will be able to get all your valuable digital files back. I strongly recommend that you use a regular 2-tiered backup routine, first of all never store any of your valuable volatile data on the same drive as your operating system (usually the “C” drive) and more importantly incorporate the use of a regular at least weekly backup routine to an external drive or even to an online backup service. This step is MISSION CRITICAL and I would not even consider using a Registry Cleaner until you have done this. There are many inexpensive backup software and hardware devices available on the market, find them and use them.

Concerning the CleanMyPC solution, it runs in the background, can be set up to run on a schedule, or to remind you on a schedule to run the cleaning process. I have it set to run weekly, at Sunday morning 2am. The first time you use the cleaner, it forces you to create a backup of your registry and to archive it on a recovery location such as a writable CD or a place on your drive that it can find easily. If your registry fails after a cleaning, the CleanMyPC software boots into itself and will prompt you to perform a registry recovery from the backup file it created. After you have performed this step and then your first registry cleaning, it’s like going to the doctor for a regularly scheduled checkup once a week, you will be secure and confident that your operating system is not running away from you and getting bogged down with all the usual trash that can be encountered online.

Speaking of that, if you employ this tactic on your computer, and there are many other people using it, such as children or other adults that like to frequent websites that can run and install all kinds of rogue applications, this could potentially defeat your efforts of trying to maintain a clean and efficient registry. Therefore it is important that you include an educational session for all users of the PC concerning what you are installing, what it will do, and how they should helpy you maintain the computer by being very careful and communicating what and where they are going and doing on the PC.

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