Win 7 Home Registry clean up?

I am wondering if my machine is suffering a bit of a slow down because of a clogged up registry. I am not really familiar with all the ins and outs of win 7 to say the least or even if it has the same registry system as win xp used to have. So please bear with me.

If anyone has a good reg edit program they know of or even if I am out in left field about this. Please be kind but let me know ok? Thanks guys a whole lot.

 

There is some debate as to whether "cleaning" the registry really provides a performance increase or not. You can try such programs as Ccleaner, or Glary Utilities to clean your cache, cookies, junk/duplicate files or empty folders, etc. They both clean the registry too.

Have you used a defrag tool for your hard drive? Windows has one built in, but Auslogics disk defrag does it with panache.

You can also try a registry defrag utility.

 

I would start with disabling un-necessary start up items and services, along with a good virus/malware, and possibly a defrag if you have a mechanical drive.

Auslogics makes a good and fast defrag utility. Disk Defrag - Best Free Defrag Software For Your Hard Drive

Microsoft's security essentials is good (and free) virus utility.

ccleaner will handle garbage (as well as some registry) cleanup duties. CCleaner - Download

For services tweaking, quite a bit of that will depend on what your personal use and configuration is. Black Viper is usually a decent place to start.

Black Viper’s Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Service Configurations | Black Viper | www.blackviper.com

EDIT: Prostar is faster than this old man

 

The answer to your implied question here is: "No". The registry has nothing to do with the issues you are seeing. Defragmenting the hard drive, and checking your startup programs are potentially useful, "cleaning" the registry is not.

My advice regarding "tweaking" services is to stay away from this, until you really, really know what you are doing, in which case you would not visit that site for help in the first place. In particular, sites like the oft-quoted BlackViper one do a lot more harm than good. Most of the advice there will have no significant effect on the performance of a PC at all, and some of the suggested tweaks can cause issues, at least for the non-expert, typically at a time when the person has long forgotten about how they had crippled their services.

 

Good points above, If you really want to do it backup (export) the registry first and find out how to restore it if needed. I would also set a restore point so you have an alternate method to recover. In some cases it may make sense just to do clean install or factory reset to restore performance as long as you can rule out any hardware issues (Bad RAM, Hard drive issues, etc).