Old age creeps up on us all and we slow down. It happens with computers to but for much different reasons. Your computer has become slow. After ignoring the problem for some time you finally realise that you must do something about it. But you don,t know what the problem is. How can you solve this problem>?

Nearly always your registry is the problem. All windows computers since Windows 95 have a registry. It is a database which the operating system uses to run the computer and run the programs you are using. The more the computer is used,the more data is compiled in this database. Hence as the computer ages the registry can become very large and bloated with a huge load of data. Much of this data can be outdated,no longer used. A lot more is parts of programs which were never completely uninstalled and partial programs which you tried to install without success. Spyware which some unknown villain installed on your machine, miscellaneous scraps of data from many sources are also clogging your registry.

From “ignorance is bliss” to “surprise attack and disaster” – how many thousands of Internet users have experienced this frustration and grief?

This raises the obvious question: “Why haven’t they prepared to avoid it?”

The startling fact is that there are many long term Internet users who have never even considered updating their Operating Systems and protective Safe-ware.

Perhaps the complexity of it all contributes to what might be described as User apathy – or indifference and a lack of enthusiasm toward the following:

It’s very easy to get dragged down by all the bad news in the financial and housing sectors. You hear news about unemployment on the rise, businesses failing, and consumers not spending. The government is trying to bolster the economy with huge injections of money. And you want to start your own computer repair business in this economy? Well, yes.

There’s a popular insurance company commercial running right now where they point out that their company started in business in 1931. This was at the beginning of the worst depression our country ever experienced. And they bring up some very valid points of why it obviously was a good idea.

Think about this, the fact remains that if the unemployment is at 7.3%, then 92 people out of 100 still have jobs. And if people aren’t spending money on items they shouldn’t, is that a bad thing? There are comparisons back to the Great Depression, and there are similarities, but the numbers from today’s economy are no where near the numbers from the early 30’s. And the causes back then on over speculation do echo our current issues of overspending and inflating assets. But several elements that had a huge impact during that period are not present today.