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Old December 6th 17, 03:08 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default Win7 Registry Size (Win 10)

"Java Jive" wrote

| AFAICR, in XP-, you used to be able to read off, and if required limit,
| the current registry size, in its native binary format, by
| rt-click-ing My Computer, and choosing Properties, Advanced,
| Performance, to take you into the Virtual Memory and Paging settings,
| but that subsection controlling the Registry has disappeared from
| Vista+.

I've never seen what you describe. I use the XP
paging settings to put a fixed-sized swap file on
a different partition and block any swap file from
C drive. But there's nothing there about the Registry.
I wouldn't see the point, anyway. Why would anyone
limit the size? Anything written there would be written
for a purpose. It processes were suddenly blocked
due to size limits the system would begin to act
unstable in numerous ways.


I don't know how you find out the true binary registry size in
| in W7 other than, as others have suggested, adding up the sizes of the
| component files.
|
| In W7, The registry natively exports in UTF-16, which in simple terms is
| two bytes per character, but some text editors may 'transparently'
| convert this to, in decreasing order of probability, ANSI, UTF-8, or
| ASCII/DOS all of which use only 1 byte per character. Further, they may
| do this on loading the file when it is opened, or upon saving it when it
| has been changed. Hence the apparent doubling of size could simply be
| due to the program you used to open it, or whether you made any changes
| to it, even an unintentional one such as inserting a blank line by
| pressing Return.


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