Is the registry truely dynamic?

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Vince

Hello all:

I have been looking around on this subject for a while to determine some
info about the registry. I am getting mixed messages.

What I want to know is when you delete keys from the registry does it leave
wasted space in the file or does it just close up?

In other words does the registry need compacted to remove wasted space like
an Outlook Express file after many messages have been deleted? Also can the
registry get fragmented?

I have read that it does and does not need compacted and also that it does
not get fragmented.
I ask for two reasons.

Reason 1 In the world of Portable (Usable from flash drives) software some
of are setup to actually write to the registry and then when the program is
closed remove the keys that were temporarily put there. Just wondering what
this does to a registry with repeated use of this type program.

Reason 2 This website has a program that is suppose to compact the registry.
I decided to try it in a non critical computer. I installed a clean set of
windows and ran the tool without installing or removing any programs. Sure
enough it said it was able to compact the registry.

Any thoughts on this would be great.

Thanks
Vince
 
Vince said:
I have been looking around on this subject for a while to determine
some info about the registry. I am getting mixed messages.

What I want to know is when you delete keys from the registry does
it leave wasted space in the file or does it just close up?

In other words does the registry need compacted to remove wasted
space like an Outlook Express file after many messages have been
deleted? Also can the registry get fragmented?

I have read that it does and does not need compacted and also that
it does not get fragmented.
I ask for two reasons.

Reason 1 In the world of Portable (Usable from flash drives)
software some of are setup to actually write to the registry and
then when the program is closed remove the keys that were
temporarily put there. Just wondering what this does to a registry
with repeated use of this type program.

Reason 2 This website has a program that is suppose to compact the
registry. I decided to try it in a non critical computer. I
installed a clean set of windows and ran the tool without
installing or removing any programs. Sure enough it said it was
able to compact the registry.

Any thoughts on this would be great.
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Yes - it can become fragmented. Usually - this does no harm.
Yes - you can cleanup - if you know what you are doing and you take proper
precautions.
Again - this is usually not an issue. Although it is possible you might see
some slight (usually very slight - I would venture into the nanos)
performance increase, there is usually no reason to be concerned with it.

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
Get ERUNT and NTREGOPT.
 
Shenan Stanley said:
Yes - it can become fragmented. Usually - this does no harm.
Yes - you can cleanup - if you know what you are doing and you take proper
precautions.
Again - this is usually not an issue. Although it is possible you might see
some slight (usually very slight - I would venture into the nanos)
performance increase, there is usually no reason to be concerned with it.

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
Get ERUNT and NTREGOPT.
Click to expand...
Sorry I forgot to put the name of the program I was speaking of but you have
a link to it in your signature. The NTREGOPT. That was what I was looking
at.

I have not used it on an actual working machine. Have you tried it? If so
did you see any ill effects? I do not plan to use it unless it becomes
necessary, from your description it really would not help a lot anyway just
a unnoticeable amount.

Vince
 
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