Just installing SP2 will create many, many useless registry entries. I suggest
you use a stop watch and time your functions then do a registry clean and time
them again. You won't be convinced until you do so.
@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
Holly cow, Richard: What kind of software do you buy that causes 600
"errors" to appear in your registry? Maybe you ought to spend a little more
and get the good stuff. {;- {;-

Ted Zieglar

"Richard Urban" wrote in message
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Told you I loaded ALL of my software, about 100 major programs and smaller
applets!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)


"Ted Zieglar" wrote in message
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The six hundred registry entries that you eliminated didn't make your
bootup
any faster. It took your system a fraction of a second to load those
registry entries into RAM; that's how much time you saved by eliminating
them.

Besides, how do you know that those 600 registry entries were "bad" --
because WinDoctor told you so? The great majority of 'errors' that
WinDoctor
finds (missing icons, broken shortcuts, etc.) are laughable. Does it seem
a
little suspicious to you that a clean install of Windows with nothing more
than Windows updates added yielded 600 "bad" registry keys?

Windows XP is continuously tuning itself in the background, establishing
the
pre-fetch, performing partial defrags, reordering the driver load (the
'secret' behind the bootvis routine), etc.

Have you ever seen an article in a computer magazine that tested registry
cleaners with 'before and after' benchmarks that measured boot times and
overall system performance?
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Ted Zieglar


"Richard Urban" wrote in message
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Consider this then!

I performed a clean install a month ago, just to test this theory.

Clean install. Added SP1 and all available Window Updates. Installed all
my
programs (had a lot of time on my hands). Then I installed SP2.

I ran WinDoctor and eliminated about 600 bad entries in the registry. I
rebooted and emptied the recycle bin.

I then ran NTREGopt.exe ( from ERUNT). This optimized (compacted) the
registry. I obtained a 19% gain in the reduction of the registry size
(about
8.5 meg smaller).

When I rebooted I was able to "CLOCK" - via a stop watch, a 23 second
reduction in bootup time to a usable desktop!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)


"Ted Zieglar" wrote in message
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Do you really think so?

Consider this:

How many megabytes of memory does, say, one thousand redundant registry
keys
occupy? How much RAM do you have installed? How fast is your hardware?

You accomplish nothing measurable (let alone perceptable) by
eliminating
those thousand registry keys, but you risk crippling your system with a
so-called registry cleaner toy.

If you're interested in speeding up your system in a way that you can
actually notice, and you're already diligent about maintaining your
computer, buy more RAM, a faster hard disk or a faster video card.
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Ted Zieglar


"Prabhat" wrote in message
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Hi Ted,

Doeas Registry Gets Load while the Windows Load? If yes Then that
should
affect the System Performance if the Size grows due to Unwanted Values
in
it.

Thanks
Prabhat

"Ted Zieglar" wrote in message
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Wesley is correct, of course.

The proper way to deal with the registry is to leave it alone,
unless
you
need to fix a specific problem that can only be repaired by editing
the
registry.

Redundant registry entries cause no harm to your computer and do not
affect
its performance.
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Ted Zieglar


"Wesley Vogel" wrote in message
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No. XP does not do this.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In ,


hunted and pecked:
Do I understand correctly, that XP removes redundant registry
entries
left behind when programmes are un-installed.

"Prabhat" wrote in message
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Hi All,

I have XP + SP1. I use Microsoft OLD RegClean.

Is this the Best Registry Cleaner Available? Or If not which
one
I
should Go
For my XP System?

Thanks
Prabhat