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Win7 Registry Size
In message , Rene Lamontagne
writes: On 12/05/2017 7:04 AM, Ed Cryer wrote: [] 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! [] 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 I dunno Ed, I have never used a registry cleaner and this was just an experiment to see what happened but I always assumed they were supposed to remove overburden. This system has always been quick and smart and using this registry cleaner doesn't seemed to have hurt or helped it any, I'm just very surprised that it added instead of subtracting. Rene It's also possible that it would have gone from 377 to 383 MB during that session even if you _hadn't_ run the cleaner - in other words, the increase may not be due to the cleaner. I'd suspect it wasn't, in fact; we can argue for ever as to whether cleaners do any good or actually do harm, but I don't think they will _increase_ it. The defragger someone mentioned, now that sounds as if it should be both worthwhile and harmless, if the registry is really a file system (an obfuscated one, as Paul puts it). I've _never_ thought the registry a good idea. Common libraries, i. e. the .DLL system, yes (though that has its problems when backward compatibility is compromised), but - apart from the undetectable advantage of loading from RAM rather than disc - I've never seen its advantage over .ini files, for software settings. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Feudalism : It's your count that votes. |
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