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cryptic error messages are something that pretty much everyone has had to

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deal with at some point from the console

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gamer suffering the Xbox 360's red ring

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of death to Michael Bolton from Office Space wondering what in the world PC

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load letter actually means but if you're

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a Windows user you've probably encountered messages telling you that

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there's a problem with the registry as well as those Shady banner ads and TV

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commercials telling you to buy a registry cleaning utility of some sort

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so what exactly is this mysterious registry why can issues with it cause

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problems for your PC and does it really need to be cleaned periodically like

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some kind of digital kitty litter box

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well unlike your cat's toilet the registry isn't really a Dumping Ground

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it's actually a database on your hard drive that stores important settings for

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both Windows and other programs you have installed you see back in the early days

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of Windows both the OS itself and other

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programs relied on small text files called inis to Store settings but

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Microsoft developed the registry as a more robust solution that can store many

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more settings than an individual inii help different pieces of software

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communicate with each other more easily keep track of settings for multiple

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users on the same machine and use a hierarchical structure to keep things

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organized that structure is actually easy to view for yourself just by typing

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reg edit into the Run window which launches a program called registry

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editor from there you'll see a massive array of folder like structures called

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registry keys which contain a myriad of

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settings and despite the warnings from Microsoft that editing the registry can

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cause serious damage to your computer it can actually be a very powerful way to

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customize Windows so long as you don't go around messing with things that you

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are unsure of a quick web search will

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yield all sorts of registry tweaks for

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both Windows and other programs that you might find useful things like

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customizing the taskbar or rightclick context menu changing the font in the

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command prompt window changing the delay when you Mouse over something between

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when the information pops up stopping Windows update from constantly interrup

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what you're doing and even adding your own logo to the system window in control

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panel these are just a few ways that you can make Windows behave the way you want

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with registry hacks simple registry adjustments are also often good ways to

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fix common PC problems in fact many hot

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fixes from Microsoft come in the form of registry entries that you can merge into

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your own registry with a simple double click but although the registry lets you

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tweak plenty of things that you just can't do from a settings menu it does

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make moving a program from one PC to

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another a total pain due to just how many settings it stores and how

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scattered they can get throughout the registry and it can indeed cause issues

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with Windows if it gets corrupted

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however with that said while certain errors in the registry can cause

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problems not even with Windows even but even with specific programs you should

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be wary of some of those registry cleaning programs that try to convince

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you your registry needs to be regularly cleaned and that doing so will give you

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faster performance because the truth of the matter is that often times the

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errors that these sorts of programs fix are just entries from uninstalled

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programs that kind of sit in the registry and don't really do much of

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anything so the chances that any individual registry error is actually

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slowing down your computer are pretty

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darn low however if you're actually getting registry related error messages

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or have a piece of malware on your computer that may have put things into

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the registry to make it harder to remove running a reputable cleaner program may

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not be a bad idea just make sure it's a trustworthy popular utility and not some

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