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TuneUp RegistryDefrag
Every new program and every new hardware component
enters itself in the registry, creating keys and values. Over
time, the central Windows database gets larger and larger.
The larger the registry becomes, the longer the system needs
to find specific information, and this makes Windows slower.
When you remove the software or the hardware component,
these keys and values are usually deleted, but the registry
doesn’t get any smaller. Why? The space that was occupied
by a deleted key is still in the registry, even if it is no longer
used. Sooner or later, your registry looks like Swiss cheese
with lots of holes. It can be 13 MB in size, but only contain 9
MB of information. This slows your system down and wastes
space, both on your hard drive and in the memory.
Swiss cheese bogs
the system down
TuneUp RegistryDefrag can consolidate your registry and
make it considerably smaller – a trick that can make your
system faster again. To do this, the module analyzes the old
registry and then creates an entirely new version that only
contains the correct entries in the proper order. The old
registry is then deleted and is replaced with the new one after
a restart.
Registry Analysis
First, TuneUp RegistryDefrag must determine how
fragmented your registry is. Click Next to begin.
An introductory
screen is displayed.
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