system32\config\system = huge

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It grows, about 10mb every hour and when it gets about 130mb (well, I guess
128mb) I get this fun message:
"The system has reached the maximum size allowed for the system part of the
registry. Additional storage requests will be ignore."
And some applications stops working or will not install. The only workaround
is to either reinstall or restore the systemstate from backup.
I found out that out of 130mb about 124mb is filled by this:
SurroundEnvironmentÿ¨$ ~ÿÿÿnk ÜZÿ³Å pf( ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ  SurroundEnvironmentK ~ÿÿÿnk ÜZÿ³Å
pf( ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ r 
SurroundEnvironment ~ÿÿÿnk ÜZÿ³Å pf( ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ 

Anyone have any clue what is the cause? I personally suspects nvidias
nforce2 drivers, but...

I've got a ASUS A7N8X Nforce2 motherboard, latest drivers and all XP fixes
installed.

//Pelle
 
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hardware, and re-enable it one by one and so on.

Thanks, it seems to be the audio drivers. and that kind of sucks, but I
guess I have to nag Nvidia about that.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292726&sd=RMVP
Registry Size Limit functionality has been removed from Windows Server
2003
and from Windows XP
Click to expand...

It might not crash, but when the config\system file gets 128mb it refuses to
accept more entries. Sadness and horror arrives.

//pelle
 
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