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By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:56:35 +0000

Well said Bill, I will be sending this article to all the folks whose computers I work on

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Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:31:56 +0000

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By: Bill Hely

Bill Hely — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:12:30 +0000

Hi Diana.

Thank you for letting me know I’m on track with useful articles. Appreciation is definitely an incentive to keep going.

Rebooting is something that most Windows users don’t do nearly enough of, and that’s the fault of Windows’ slow start-up process. You’ll get no argument from me that rebooting is a time wasting irritation.

But reboots under certain circumstances are very important for the health and trouble-free operation of a PC.

Obviously after a reboot or power down/up everything that was in memory has been flushed.

A shutdown via an orderly reboot — as opposed to just switching off the machine, a definite no-no — can be described simplistically as a bedding-down process for system data held in memory at that time. There may be data in memory that needs to be transferred to permanent storage (hard disk) in the form of an update to a configuration file. Quite often the configuration file might be the Windows Registry.

Only the programmers of the various applications you use will know whether or not the program is carrying data in memory that needs to be written to hard disk on exiting the program. Unhappily developers don’t always incorporate into their programs a prompt to restart after initial installation, even when it would be the advisable action.

Particularly critical times are:

Before installing a new program — reboot to start with a clean slate;

After installing a new program — “bed down” any system/config data held in memory;

Before and after using major utilities such as a registry cleaner — same reasons as above.

By: Diana Whitwam

Diana Whitwam — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:48:26 +0000

I found this article really helpful, thank you. I have Uniblue Registry Booster but didn’t know I needed to reboot before and after and recently I’ve not used it, now I will again. Thanks.

(I have an RSS feed for your articles, but I see some haven’t arrived there.)

By: gerald strickland

gerald strickland — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:22:40 +0000

I have not used RegistryBooster but I have used a registry cleaner since Microsoft first released Regclean and in recent years I have, and do, use two cleaners. One, followed by the other as they do find different problems. I have never had a problem that was caused by running a registry cleaner.

By: Michael Patrick Doyle

Michael Patrick Doyle — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:09:56 +0000

I find that people who differ in opinion sometimes really agree but won’t come right out and say that for fear of being considered a flake and also losing all credibility. I’m with you Bill, Registry Booster works fine for me time and time again.