On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Wayne Johnson wrote:
> >I've been lead to belive that starting with a reinstall
> >is the best way to get rid of a registry that has
> >incorrect paths and/or references.
>
> Best way, maybe but there are registry cleaning tools out
> there.
>
> >3) Is there any easy way to do a clean reinstall and then
> >get all my applications and data without having to
> >reinstall each application and copy the data from a data
> >disk?
>
> Without reinstalling & copying data back? I don't think
> so. Even then you'll probably create some erroneous reg
> entries anyway. I highly recommend a Registry Cleaning
> tool if it's that big a deal for you. I believe that with
> today's "modern" machines that the contention is that so
> what if you have a few erroneous entries as they
> shouldn't slow the booting of your computer or the
> operation of Windows enough for you to actually notice.
> It is my understanding that a fragmented registry is far
> worse than a few bad entries. I suppose one could use the
> old MSFT RegClean
> <http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,4666,00.asp>
> which even tho it's not support has never been reported
> as doing any harm that I know of. Norton Utilities
> WinDoctor which would do the same thing but I've sworn
> off most if not all Symantec stuff. I use Resplendent
> Registrar <http://www.resplendence.com/docs/pp.dll> which
> has many reg tweaks builtin as well as the ability to
> defragment & edit the registry even remotely across a
> lan. I like it so much that I have the paid version & use
> it with my XpPe builds. There is a freeware version
> available at the above site as well & I think it does
> everything except the remotely part that the paid version
> does.
>
> FWIW if you'd tell us what your goal is then it would
> making answering the questions easier. If you're doing
> only one machine that's been in use for a while then I
> would just clean it but if you were getting ready to set
> up quite a few machines for a client & they wanted them
> all the same way then I would do the clean install of
> everything [OS & apps] on 1 machine then image it to do
> the restore that image on the others. Now if you're
> adding a bunch of machines & want to clone an existing
> machine that has been in use for a while then you'd
> better do more than just clean the registry such as
> emptying the recycle bin, get rid of TIF [temp internet
> files] & all history lists. So as you can see there is
> more than one right answer depending on what you plan to
> achieve.
Thanks.
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