Windows Defender

If you’ve had your computer for any length of time, you may have noticed that over time, there is a growing tendency that Windows keeps freezing up on you. When you first installed Windows on your machine or when you first bought your computer brand-new, you may remember that it was screaming fast. All of your applications would open and close immediately. Web pages would load within microseconds. The Start Menu wouldn’t pause for several seconds before expanding when you would click on it. Your mouse cursor would rarely ever “hourglass”.

But then as time went on, and you installed more programs on your computer, such as games, productivity tools, and music, your computer would eventually slow down. Whether your computer has the latest, most state-of-the-art hardware, with the fastest CPU, the most memory, and the most disk space, it would still eventually slow down to the point where it would get to be just plain unbearable.

Why does that happen? And what can you do about it, other than to reinstall Windows?

If you’ve tried anti-virus software or anti-spyware software, if you’ve tried defragmenting your hard drive, if you’ve tried doing all kinds of lame hings to optimize your PC, such as using a blank desktop instead of a graphical wallpaper, or uninstalling programs that you rarely use, you’ve probably noticed that nothing really seems to help. It seems as though your computer is inevitably becoming increasingly unusable.

Most people have come to accept this as just how Windows is.

But there is one solution that most people overlook: Optimization of your Windows Registry.

The Windows Registry is a hidden database running under Windows that keeps track of all of the software that has ever been installed on your machine, all of your system start up information, your file associations, your application configuration settings, and even some hardware device information. When you fire up your computer for the very first time, the registry is very lean and trim. But over time, it can grow to tens of megabytes – consuming valuable space on your computer’s hard drive.

And the larger the Windows Registry gets, the most bloated it becomes, retaining invalid information, and sometimes even containing errors such as invalid, obsolete, or broken references to programs, applications, settings, or devices that are no longer on your machine. If the database gets too big and gets too bloated, it becomes unoptimized. Because Windows constantly needs to look up information in the registry, an unoptimized registry can cause the operating system to slow down significantly, causing the phenomenon whereby Windows keeps freezing constantly.

Unfortunately, Windows does not come bundled with its own registry optimizer. And neither do most anti-virus software programs. Fortunately there a number of third-party programs out there that can optimize your Windows registry for you. By optimizing the registry, you will see a significant performance boost to your system. It is somewhat analogous to providing routine maintenance for your car. You have to get an oil change and you have to rotate your tires periodically. In a similar fashion, it is recommended that you optimize your Windows registry periodically as well, to keep your computer running smoothly and efficiently. If you do, then You can leave the agony of Windows is held frozen.