The majority of sites I found during research only talked about the pros of registry repair software. None presented any of the cons to these computer programs or what they were actually capable of doing to improve PC performance. If I wanted to learn about how these programs could improve performance I was going to have to test it myself. So that’s what I did I created a comparison of Registry Repair software on my own test PC to decide if these programs really worked. My results? The programs were actually pretty surprising.
Speed Means Nothing
I timed all of the registry cleaners I tested to see how long they took to do a complete scan. Times for the full scan were all between one and ten minutes long. I did notice that a second scan with the same program was faster then the first, I can only presume they cached some of the data they found on the first scan.
The performance of a program and speed of a scan were unrelated. My conclusion was that the speed of the scan had nothing to do with the best registry cleaner.
Errors Found Doesn’t Mean Errors Repaired
This really surprised me. The number of errors found during the full scan of my computer wasn’t the same number of repairs, or better stated changes made to my registry. The top registry cleaner completed 60-70% of the changes found in the full scan. I’d assume that to create more panic in users registry cleaners look to find as many potential errors as possible then only repair the key critical ones affecting performance.
Features are Important
This was the test that really started to make me more of a believer in registry repair software. Up to this point there had been small improvements in the performance of my test PC from the scans and repairs down by each utility. When I began to run the startup optimizers, junk file cleaners and other system utilities that were built into many of the registry cleaners I tested I began to see some good results.
My boot time of Windows was reduced, as well as the startup time for many of my programs. I measured the performance improvement by timing the start up with a computer start up timer so everything was equal.
Conclusion
While my test PC wasn’t that infected with junk files and registry errors I was able to squeeze out some performance. It wasn’t really caused from the registry repair part of the software. The improvement came from running the additional programs that came with the software.
My result suggest that you can see improvement using registry cleaners, but be sure to get one with a refund policy in case you don’t see big changes.
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