Registry Booster belongs to the latest generation of automatic and powerful registry cleaning software tools. It features a technologically advanced error detection system that detects all kinds of redundant, corrupt and incomplete entries in your Windows registry and eliminates them. This not only helps in stabilizing your system, but also enhances overall PC performance. Registry Booster has received several awards and positive feedback from technological experts like Cnet, ZDnet and PCmech.com.
Registry Booster is a product of Uniblue Systems Limited, which is known in the IT industry for creating simple yet immensely powerful award-winning tools like DriverScanner, SpeedUpMyPC and Registry Booster that help improve the speed and stability of computers. These fascinating products are a result of over ten years of extensive research and development. The company promises every customer that they will provide effective, easy to use software and good support that they can rely on.
This article presents a comprehensive review of the Registry Booster software.
Introduction to the Windows Registry
In order to analyze the efficacy of RRegistry Booster, it is important to first understand the role of the registry in a Windows computer as well as the need to maintain it on a regular basis.
The Windows registry is an integral part of all Microsoft Windows operating systems that have been launched after Windows 95. It can be compared to the central nervous system of a computer and it contains critical information that facilitates its day to day operations. The Windows registry is a database of information regarding hardware, software, operating system and user preferences. Its structure is hierarchy based and is similar to Windows Explorer.
The registry is continuously used as long as a computer is operational. This is because the operating system regularly accesses the Windows registry to extract necessary information to carry out desired commands and operations. Every time there is a software installation or uninstallation or change in system policies or configuration of the Control Panel, the changes are duly noted in the Windows registry.
Common Issues Related to the Windows Registry
Like any other computer component, the Windows registry can also become susceptible to errors. Some of the common issues related to the Windows registry are:
- Incomplete or incorrect installation or uninstallation of software.
- System crashes that may corrupt data in the registry.
- Virus, Spyware and Adware infections that may fill up the registry with malicious entries and even modify the existing legitimate entries to generate errors and cause various other problems on the system.
- Installing too many programs on a system – when you install more, you add more entries to the registry, which, as a result, bloats up, becomes unstable and significantly slow.
- Any kind of malfunctioning of hardware devices or software applications that may corrupt related data in the registry.
The above mentioned factors destabilize the Windows registry by filling it up with obsolete and redundant data. In order to prevent such issues and to ensure optimal PC performance, you must ensure that the registry is always well-maintained. This can be done by performing regular registry scans and by removing the unwanted information by using reliable registry tools like Registry Booster.
Let us review all aspects of Registry Booster right from the first step of obtaining the software:
Installation
The software can be obtained and downloaded from the official website of Registry Booster. We began the review of the software by evaluating the download time. The program file was downloaded very quickly and we were off to a good start. The next step was installation which was again smooth and trouble-free.
System Requirements
- Intel Pentium 4, 1GHz or equivalent
200MB free hard disk space and 512MB RAM
- Internet Explorer 7
Windows XP / Vista / 7
Active Internet connection
- Graphics mode 1024x768 true color (highest 32-bit)
How It Works
Whether you are an advanced or novice computer user, keeping your registry at its best has never been so easy. You will find this out for yourself when you see how Registry Booster works.
The Registry Scan Page
Once the installation of Registry Booster completes, the Registry Scan page opens by default and the tool automatically starts scanning the registry for issues.
Although you have an option to stop the scan by hitting the Stop scan button at the bottom, it is always good to let the scan continue. The tool took a little under 3 minutes to complete the scan on our test computer and display the scan results. Our test computer was a one year old Dell Inspiron with Windows Vista SP2 laptop.
The scan detected 301 errors out of which the majority were High level errors. Registry Booster categorizes errors as Low, Moderate, or High, which makes it easy for us to identify the issues that require immediate attention.
Note: Before you proceed to the next step, you need to register the tool. To do this, click the Register now button at the bottom of the screen and then enter the registry key that came with your product.
The tool also enables you to view a detailed description of the errors it detects. For this, you need to click the Detailed view button located at the bottom of the screen. Here, you may go through the listed errors and if you don’t want to fix one or more them, just add them to the ignore list. To do this, click on the error you want to ignore and then click the Add to the ignore list option that is displayed. Ignored entries will not be scanned or repaired in the future.
Once the scan is complete (and you have added the entries you don’t want to fix in the ignore list), you may fix the identified errors by clicking the Fix errors button at the bottom.
To make sure that the fixes are done without causing any harm to your system, Registry Booster, first makes a backup of the existing registry and then proceeds with the fixes. A backup ensures that if you face problems running your PC after the registry fixes are made, you can restore the old registry to resolve the issue.
Registry Booster also logs a report of the changes done, you can view these log reports by opening the Registry repair logs page.
Another useful option that comes built-in with Registry Booster is Registry defrag. Constant addition and removal of information from the registry causes registry defragmentation. This causes your registry as well as your system to slow down. Registry Booster comes with a useful tool that helps you easily resolve this problem.
To defrag the registry of your computer, select the Registry defrag option from the left panel of the Registry Scan page. Next, to run a registry defragmentation, click Registry defrag.
It took the tool around 2 minutes to defrag the registry of our test computer. Once the process was complete, we had to restart our PC. It will also be fair to mention here that after using the test laptop for a few hours, we found a considerable improvement in the speed and performance of the system.
The Restore Page
You have seen that Registry Booster made an automatic backup of the registry before making any changes to it. Now, if you want to revert these changes, open the Restore page, select the backup you want to restore to, and then click the Restore button at the bottom.
If you want to delete a particular backup, click the Delete selected button.
The Settings page
The Settings page enables you to perform some simple configuration of the Registry Booster tool. You can:
- Configure functions of the ‘–‘ and ‘X’ icons located on the tops of the Registry Booster window.
- Set the language of the tool.
- Select if the tool should launch at system startup and run the registry scan.
- Set proxy settings (if required). These settings are required for updating the tool.
- View system information.
The Overview page
This page is just what it says. It gives an overview of various aspects of the tool. It gives information related to:
- Status of your registry
- Registry Booster and when it was updated
You can also start registry scans from this page and download additional components such as SpeedMyPC and DriverScanner tools. These tools are available for an additional cost and they work along with Registry Booster to keep your registry as well as your system free from errors, up-to-date and at its best performance.
Best Features:
Technologically advanced error detection system
One of the most fascinating features of Registry Booster is its error detection technology that we found to be more advanced than its competitors. This helped us detect all problematic entries in the registry of our test machine. It also led to enhanced performance of the machine that surpassed our expectations. We also found the system to be completely stable and there were no side-effects of Registry Booster.
Detailed report of scan results
Another useful feature of this advanced registry cleaning tool is its reporting system. The system keeps you informed of all critical issues and updates such as errors detected, repairs done, date and results of scans. It also enlists when defragmentation was performed and the details of restore points that were created.
Great defragmenting features
Registry Booster enables you to defrag your system at regular intervals. This helps in preventing seizures or crashes that happen due to a fragmented registry.
Auto Scanning for Registry Optimization
The automatic scanning feature of Registry Booster takes care of any potential problems that may lead to system slow downs or crashes.
Automatic backup and restore
The automatic backup and restore feature ensures total peace of mind as any changes that are made are completely reversible. Therefore, there is no uncertainty in the mind of the user about any mishap related to the Windows registry.
Weaknesses
Registry Booster on most accounts exceeded the results delivered by other top registry cleaning tools. We had no complaints about the software and it deserves all the positive testimonials and loyal customer base it has gained.
We do feel that some of the help options could have been better organized, but really these are just a couple of limitations we could find with this robust and advanced registry cleaning software.
Conclusion
In the end, we conclude that Registry Booster is one of the better products in the fiercely competitive registry cleaning software market. It stands out both because of its advanced technology and thoughtful features that make cleaning the Windows registry and optimizing PC performance a walk in the park.
Additional Recommendations...
Driver Update: Many errors are related to driver problems such as obsolete, outdated or incompatible drivers. A driver update tool is recommended to scan your system for corrupted and outdated drivers and to ensure that all your drivers stay up-to-date.
