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Old December 5th 17, 02:04 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ed Cryer
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 12/04/2017 6:45 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Ken Blake
writes:
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Also note that in these days of a 1TB drive costing $50 US or so,
273MB is a tiny amount. It's a little more than a penny's worth of
disk space.


But 5 or 10 per cent of the available RAM on smaller systems, so
(since the registry is normally held in RAM), can be relevant in that
respect. (Though there's little you can _do_ about it - certainly a
pass with a "registry cleaner" won't make much difference to the size,
and what it does delete will often come back rapidly, consisting as it
does largely of MRU entries.)


Well you fellows got my curiosity up about registry cleaners.
I have never used one, So having a 1 day old Macrium backup I decided to
have a look.

I exported the registry to a blank folder and checked it's size it was
377 MB.
Ran Ccleaner registry cleaner and it took 4 passes before it reported no
errors'
Exported it again and found the new clean size to be(drum roll) 383 MB!
So much for snake oil registry cleaners for me, It proved my point
beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Case Closed.

Rene


Maybe Ccleaner has done you a favour. I've never seen it do multiple
passes, and I'd guess it was repairing something that might have been
about to crash your system. 6MB added to shore up a shaky wall.

Ed
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