P.J,. I think Shel referred to defragmenting the registry logically, not the registry file on disk.
Shel, my brother the sys-admin told me few times that NT based OSes react very badly to defragmenting of registry on the logical level. You can clean the registry by carefuly deleting the entries that are indeed useless, but I wouldn't invite you to defragment it. Once upon a time I had Win98 on my machine and I had some utility that could do both clean and defrag. It gave me much grief. To put it simply - Windows became unstable. HTH. -- Boris
