I unfortunately became very tired by the time I had read not much more then a few posts on this article and just wanted to mention one thing. My apologies if it is already mentioned as I had not seen it.

The title, the item at the top of the article, reads "File free Windows registry cleaners to keep your system running smoothly". The article then goes on to give more information about the issues that can arise from a "mucked up registry" (sorry, I just loved that way of saying it so had to use it). I did not really find any place where the article drags on and on about how cleaning the registry boosts your computers speed and was more focused on system stability gained from a cleaner registry.

So now that this part is clear we can move past all of the negative comments about how registry cleaners don't boost your speed by themselves as this was not the primary focus of this article and the only mention of it was minor at best.

The main benefit that a registry cleaner can give anyone is a more stable system. Just keep in mind that if your not really seeing any stability issues of any kind, and yes that means you should check the Event Viewer for errors, then you do not really need to worry about cleaning the registry to help keep your system stable (running smoothly as the article put it in the title). Just do not down plan the importance of a registry cleaner for the average user out there that is in no way able to manually clean up the registry (what a nightmare even for some one who could, don't forgeincrediblyadably large this is).