> > From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/07/06 Wed AM 10:25:35 GMT > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT - Cleaning and Defragmenting Windows Registry > > recent versions of Windows compress the registry on its own, automatically, > and recovers wasted space. deleting unused entries can be bad because it is > very hard to tell what are unused entry unless you know how Microsoft wants > applications to put entries in the registry in the first place. users are > caught in a Catch-22 because programs that put wrong entries in there cause > slowdowns and crashes and removing them is critical to fixing those > problems. uninstallers that don't remove entries can also do the same. this > of course is compounded by Microsoft changing their mind on where things > have to go over the years, and applications that don't follow the rules but > still work until Microsoft decides it needs to start enforcing the rule. the > worst problems happen when a crash occurs during shutdown and you get a > corrupted registry. i've had that a couple of times and the computer usually > won't come up until you reinstall Windows, sometimes only after a clean > install. > > Herb....
And I've been told that ME is the worst version of Windows. Snigger. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:58 AM > Subject: Re: OT - Cleaning and Defragmenting Windows Registry > > > > I essentially wrote exactly what you said. You can *delete* the unused > > entries by use of certain programs. You can also *compress" the registry > > by *removing* the empty spaces. The first operation can be done, usually > > by professional. The second operation is *highly* unadvised as it may > > render your computer dead. > > > ----------------------------------------- Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/
