There are a lot of registry cleaners on the market right now, with all sorts of claims of them being able to speed up your computer and stop errors floating around, too.
Since there are so many out there, you need to be sure that you're using the best one for your computer..
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so which is the best registry cleaner for XP? Even though there are a lot of registry cleaners out there, they have all been designed to the same job - to clean out a part of your system called the 'registry'.
This is a big database which sits at the core of XP and stores all sorts of information and settings about your computer.
Everything from your latest emails to the color of your theme is all kept in this database, making it one of the most important parts of the XP system.
In fact, the XP registry is so important that it's constantly being used by XP to help it "remember" many different settings for your PC.
This means that each time you use your computer, Windows has 100's of registry files open at once, telling it all sorts of things.
This is okay, but unfortunately, XP often gets confused and ends up saving many of these registry files in the wrong way, making them corrupt and incredibly hard to read.
This not only makes your computer run slower, but it can also cause errors...
as it struggles to process these broken files.
To fix this problem, you need to use a registry cleaner to scan through the XP registry and fix all the problems that are lurking inside it.
Registry cleaners work by scanning every registry file on your computer and then fixing any of the corrupt / broken ones that it finds.
However, the quality of your registry cleaner is extremely important, as only the best ones will remove the most amount of corrupt files from the XP registry.
We've tested all the most popular registry cleaners and found that only a handful of them are any good on XP.
However, we also found that one cleaner in particular, called "RegAce" worked incredibly well on the operating system.
RegAce is a relatively new registry cleaner, but it's quickly become one of the most popular.
Its ability to quickly find the most registry problems inside XP has lead it to be downloaded 100's of times a day...
and with several unique features, it's also extremely effective on the other operating systems we tested.
These features include a complete backup system (which protects your PC from any problems a scan might cause) and an advanced scanning engine (which finds and fixes more problems than most other cleaners).