If you are mystified by the headline, chances are you haven’t been following my articles at all. Shame. I’ve gone blue in the face asking folks to clean Windows Registry whenever they encounter Windows errors, and you still tell me the heading makes no sense? Heartbreaking. However, I shall plough bravely on, and repeat myself endlessly until the message hits home - the key to repairing most Windows errors is a thorough cleaning of Windows Registry, at least once a month.

Gus Sanderson, a chemicals expert and a long-standing friend of mine, can officially be classed as a nerd. He is one of those people who delight in exploring things that they can have absolutely no business to know, and yet insist on knowing because it satisfies some inexplicable inner urge. And it was Gus who pointed me in the direction of Windows error codes many years ago, with the result that I drowned in a sea of error codes and their possible meanings.

Today, while I can safely say that I can tell you what a Windows error message is trying to say, I can’t say the same of lay users such as Rebecca Nielsen, who wrote in to complain that her PC was behaving most erratically and throwing up Windows error messages without any consideration for her nerves.

The thing about Windows errors is that they can have several different causes, and yet all these causes can usually be found hidden in Windows Registry, that huge internal database that exists within every Windows operating system, and acts as your computer’s unique signature. Whatever action you perform on your PC is recorded in the Registry, including such commonplace acts as installing and uninstalling applications.

As a rule, most Windows errors can be traced to the improper installing and uninstalling of applications on your PC, and this litters your Registry with missing links, damaged files, and other bits of rubbish that not only occupy space on the hard drive, but also have the potential to corrupt the Registry. And you don’t even want to think about what that means for your PC.

So the best way out of this quagmire is to clean the Registry whenever Windows error messages become too frequent. Actually, you should clean the Registry once a month purely as a preventive measure, but the call is yours. All you do is download RegCure (note: direct download link), the best Registry cleaning software that I have used, and run it. Because the cleaning instructions are so easy to follow, I shall not go into them in detail, but you’ll know what to do. I have offered a free link to RegCure (note: direct download link) in most of my posts, that’s how much I love the guy. So go ahead and start cleaning!