subject: Vista Keeps Freezing Up - Which Plan Of Action Could Make Sense? [print this page] If your Microsoft Windows Vista keeps freezing up, take comfort with the fact that you are not alone. You are among millions of PC users who were led to believe Microsoft Vista would be the next best thing, one solid improvement in correcting all of XP's quirks and glitches, only to realize that this latest OS is afflicted with its own set of serious bugs.
So, what should you do if your Vista keeps freezing up? The first answer that is best for most consumers is to revert to XP. For some people this may be a possibility. But, reverting from Vista to XP may not be a viable option, because the procedure itself could be filled with obstacles of its own.
So then the concern is: Is there a way to stabilize Windows Vista?
Yes there is. However, it is not the answer that many people think of.
It is not the running of anti-virus or anti-spyware cleaners.
It is not the defragmenting of the hard disk.
It is not the fine-tuning of the system virtual memory settings or the cleaning up of hard drive space.
The solution is one that is overlooked too often:
Tuning the Windows registry database.
The Windows registry is the primary database that the operating system uses to store all configuration information about every component of software and hardware ever affiliate with your machine. Over time, the registry will become excessively inefficient, and errors can start creeping up in the registry database.
The resolution is to start a search of your Windows registry for any inefficiencies and errors and to fix them.
Optimizing your computer's Windows registry is one of the most critical aspects of keeping the Windows OS in the best condition, to keep it delivering at the best performance. You have to take your automobile in for an oil change and a tune up on a regular basis, don't you? In the same respect, your computing environment needs a tune up frequently, to keep it running optimally too. Failure to do so over time can lead to severe performance quality of the user experience: The Internet web browser will run slow, websites taking too long to load, the operating system will take what seems like forever to boot, the machine may refuse to log off, applications might freeze for several minutes at a time with no rational explanation, or could crash abruptly without advanced warning, and your Internet browser might be bombarded with banner ad pop-ups that continuously respawning themselves no matter how much you try to clean up the operating system.
Think of the Windows registry like your computer's "DNA". Each pair of keys and values is like one of the pairs of chromosomes on the strand of DNA, that controls each of the OS's functionality. If any of the keys or values in the registry were to be corrupted then it can wreak havoc on your entire machine, in the similar way that a single mutated chromosome can inevitably lead to cancer.
And, to use the DNA analogy for all its worth, the the only "cure for cancer" of the system is to clean the Windows registry by using software to repair , whose purpose is to "fight" the affected registry entries by cleaning and optimizing the registry, and fixing any invalid links it contains.
