If you perform a registry clean up scan on your computer, it is highly likely that some files or information from your computer are going to be erased. The automatic registry cleaner scan will delete files and information from your computer which no longer serve a purpose to the computer anymore. For instance, if a file is a duplicate file or if a file is no longer needed on the computer then these files will be removed from the computer's registry.

During an automatic registry clean up scan, the program will only eliminate things from the registry that are no longer needed or that serve no purpose to the computer any longer. If a file is still used or is needed in order to operate something on the computer, then the scan would not delete the file. However, what if a file got deleted from your computer during a registry clean up scan?

It is possible to have information deleted from your computer's registry during clean up scan of the registry. However, nine times out of ten this is not the result of an automatic clean up scan. Usually, if crucial information has been deleted during a clean up scan, it is due to the fact that a manual clean up has taken place on the registry and someone has deleted important files by an accident.

If an individual was to erase information from the computer's registry by accident during a manual clean up, what are the options? What happens to the information? How is it fixed?

- When information is deleted from a computer's registry during a registry clean up, the information is lost. Once the information is deleted from the registry, it is lost.

- There is no way to retrieve the information that was deleted from the computer's registry. Once the information is deleted, that is it. There is no way to retrieve the information and place it back in to the registry of the computer.

- In order to fix the computer, an individual would need to take their computer to a highly trained computer professional and pay the professional to fix their computer. It is likely that the computer will be wiped clean and all information on the computer will be lost.

It is for these very reasons that it is never recommended for an individual to mess around with registry clean up scans. It is also better for an individual to perform the automatic clean up scan of the registry rather than perform a manual clean up scan.