Common Causes for Windows Vista Crashes

Has your new Windows Vista system already started crashing? If yes, then it is important for you to know what causes system crashes and try to resolve or prevent them from happening. In this article, we are going to discuss some of the common causes of Vista crashes and how you can avoid them.

Registry problems are one of the main causes of several Windows Vista errors and system crashes. This is because the registry is a central hierarchal database repository that comprises all information related to hardware and software configuration, system setup, and user preferences. Now, whenever you install/uninstall applications, change system configuration, or perform any other activity such as browse the Web, open and create new files, and so on, information is accessed, added, or removed from the registry. In the process, quite often some unwanted information, such as outdated, incorrect and invalid entries make their way into the registry and unnecessarily corrupt, damage and fragment its files.

A damaged and fragmented registry, full of invalid and corrupt entries, tends to generate errors on your Vista system and cause frequent system freezes and crashes.

The best way to fix registry problems and restore the registry to a healthy state is by using a reliable and efficient Vista registry cleaner tool. This tool automates the process of scanning the registry for errors and repairing them. When you repair registry errors, many Vista errors, related to DLLs, drivers, and other system files are also fixed and your system is restored to a healthy state.

Registry cleaners also enable you to defrag the Vista registry. When you defrag the registry, the following things happen:

• All fragmented registry files are consolidated and reindexed, speeding up the time the registry takes to provide the required information to the programs and drivers accessing it. As a result, the performance of your Windows PC becomes better and the chances of Vista crashes are minimized.
• When you uninstall applications or when unwanted registry entries are removed when you repair the registry using the registry cleaner tool, deleted entries may leave behind their place holders or empty registry keys. These empty keys unnecessarily increase the size of the registry and make it unstable. Defragging the registry using a registry cleaner tool helps you in getting rid of these unwanted, empty entries and enables you to decrease the size of the registry.

Before you perform any registry repair task, you must make sure that you back up the Windows Vista registry first. This is possible by using your registry cleaner tool. Using the backup and restore option of a registry cleaner tool, you can both backup and restore the Vista registry with just a few mouse clicks.

Many Vista errors such as mci32 vista errors occur when programs installed on the Vista system need DLL files that are not shipped with the Vista operating system. If your system crashes or generates errors for such files, then to resolve the issue, you will first have to copy the missing DLL file to its location on the disk and then register it by running the “regsvr32 /i ” command.