My registry crashed about a year ago and let me tell you it is one of the worst computer experiences you’ll ever go through. It leaves your computer useless and baffled. I had to go to the library to research what was going on. After about a week I stumbled upon an article about the registry that had some familiar topics. After about another week of gathering information I was ready to rebuild my registry. Trust me people. Don’t go through this alone. A simple xp registry cleaner would have saved me a lot of time and hassle. Yes. I could have took it to Best buy or some computer outlet. But they wanted $65.00 to just diagnose the problem. Probably would have been another $100.00 on top of that to finally get the computer up and running. When I bought my new computer a windows xp registry cleaner was included so I was pretty much safe but if I was to purchase another computer without any protection I surely would buy some sort of out of the box windows xp registry cleaner.