Does your computer freeze often without any discernible cause at all? Do you have to save your files every 5 minutes because you are afraid your computer will crash at any minute and you don't want to lose your work? Are you afraid of opening your media player and listen to music while you work because you think it might freeze your computer? Do you run your antivirus program over and over in the hopes that random crashes stop? Are you considering sending your computer to a repair shop to see if they can find what's causing the freezing?

I understand your pain. Random computer freezing is one of the most frustrating problems there is. I'm not talking about computer freezing when you're using a newly installed program or freezing when your computer is struggling to cope with the high requirements of a very advanced video game.

I'm talking about the kind of freezing that happens when you're in the middle of doing something simple and not very resource demanding, like writing a document in Word, or making additions on an Excel spreadsheet. Or just leaving the computer on and finding it frozen when you come back to it.

In those cases, what you need is a registry cleanup.

The Windows registry is a database that stores the information of how your computer works and its settings. When it's messed up, your computer's performance falls dramatically, slowing or freezing at random. Installation, reinstallation, and uninstalling programs can modify the Windows registry. Viruses and blackouts are other causes as well.

A Windows registry cleanup will find what's wrong with your Windows registry and fix it, reestablishing it's settings to its regular values.

You can carry out a Windows registry cleanup manually by running regedit.exe. However, the average Windows user will not know what to do. If you don't have advanced programming skills, tampering with your Windows registry will cause even more random freezing and even permanent damage.

Just take the easy way and get a program from the Internet that can run the Windows registry cleanup for you. Such a program will not only do the Windows registry cleanup in a matter of seconds, but it will also know exactly what to do.

If you still insist on doing it manually, at least save all your information on another computer and have your Windows operating system installation discs nearby. That way, if you have to format your computer, you wouldn't have lost your files.