Keeping a clean windows registry (out of unsed file extensions)
From times to times, most of the Windows users find one strange colorless icon pointing to a document or file. Some other times, when one tries to open a file, there comes a small popup window asking with which program or application you do want to open the file.
It usually happens when a File Extension is linked to a program, currently uninstalled. The root of problem is not that the program or application is uninstalled, as much as the uninstaller software does not take much care of the registry entries left behind.
For example, if you install a Torrent Downloader - let’s say SampleTorrentApp, the File Extension TORRENT is associated by the setup program of SampleTorrentApp, so that when you try to open a new torrent, then SampleTorrentApp works to download it. But, then you decide on installing a new Torrent Downloader - e.g. SampleTorrentTech - and the File Extension TORRENT is now associated with the new program. At a final stage, you unistall SampleTorrentTech and keep SampleTorrentApp, but the torrents are not opened automatically as they used in the past. Why? Registry problems.
The wise advce is: keep your registry clean. There are a few tools that “keep an eye” on the registry and are tipically cheap. And the foreplus of such a tool is that they usually help to reduce the size of the Registry File, translating in increased speed and performance of the PC.
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