i don't take in to much what wikipedia has to offer. Because it is a open edit that lets anyone edit what is there and add to it. Sometimes the info is correct, but further research tells the tell and also a ton of books written on the subject of the registry. So what you are saying is a 1 or 2 gig registry will run the same as a 5 to 10 gig? Don't think so on any system and would rather have that 1 or 2 gig. At least I know that a ton of orphan and obsolete entries are not there. Witch will slow the system down trying to find them until it times out and moves on.
At 01:03 PM 8/3/2008, you wrote:
Just for your consideration, take a look at the wikipedia article on registry cleaners. Its just like I thought, a placebo effect.On Windows 9x computers, it is possible that a very large registry could slow down the computer's startup time. However this is far less of an issue with NT-based Operating Systems (including Windows XP and Vista) due to a different on-disk structure of the registry, improved memory management and indexing.[7] Slowdown due to registry bloat is thus far less of an issue in modern versions of Windows. More importantly, however, the difference in speed due to the use of a registry cleaner is negligible: rarely do they remove more than a few kilobytes from the total size of the registry. In fact, technology journalist Ed Bott has claimed that no-one has ever successfully managed to measure any significant performance increase from the use of a registry cleaner.[8] Any potential user of a registry cleaner must thus balance a probably negligible performance increase against the possibility of system instability.... Most registry cleaners however make no distinction as to the severity of the errors, and many that do erroneously categorize errors as "critical" with little basis to support it....Most notably, critics say there is no reliable way for a third party program to know whether any particular key is invalid, redundant or neither. Poorly designed registry cleaners may not know for sure whether a key is still being used by Windows or what detrimental effects removing it may have. This has lead to examples of registry cleaners causing loss of functionality and/or system instability....The benefits of Registry cleaners have been used by a number of trojans applications to install malware, typically through social engineering attacks that use website popups. These rogue registry cleaners often exaggerate the problems on a PC and are often marketed with advertisements that falsely claim to have pre-analyzed your PC with warnings such as "Performance Scan Results: Bad. Click here to fix." Rogue registry cleaner "WinFixer" has been ranked as one of the most prevalent pieces of malware currently in circulation.And on and on. Matthew __________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3317 (20080801) __________The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
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