My friend Dan came to my house recently, complaining that the laptop he bought 19 months was having problems and he would need to get a new one. How was he going to raise money to buy a new PC? Why would a computer he got just 19 months ago, take more than ten minutes to booth? I looked at him calmly and asked when last did you clean up your registry?' The look on his face told me that Dan didn't know anything about registry clean ups and their advantage. A registry is about the most important and vital part of the operating system of your computer. It stores all the information on your soft and hardware configuration and can slow down or increase the tempo of your computer's speed. When you notice that the speed of your computer has reduced, it shows that your registry has errors and needs to be cleaned up. The errors could be as a result of some junk files in your hard drive or some programs that got installed on your PC without your knowledge. To clean up your computer's registry and fix the errors, you would need to download a registry cleaner. This cleaner can easily be downloaded from the internet for a small fee. It runs like a virus scanner by first searching for bad files and then deleting them. You only need to download this cleaner once. On the other hand, you would need to be using the cleaner regularly to ensure that your PC runs at utmost speed.