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