[Question] The Registry

[hougtimo]

Hi,

I know the basics about the registry and what it does, I can also edit certain parts of the registry that I am comfortable with (most speed tweaks and the such like). What I want to know, is : Does having a big registry slow you computer down? Also what is considered to be a large registry?

Currently my registry is 16,809k (nearly 17mb), my system is nLited and I have about 15 applications installed. Is my registry too big? are there any ways of making it smaller? is there any excess stuff in there i can get rid of? If i do slim it down, will i notice a speed increase in my PC at all?

Thanks

HougTimo

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--Sonic

[Sonic]

IMHO, keeping a small registry doesn't make a real increase speed.

There are utils to defrag. the registry but I havn't tested yet, I think there isn't a noticeable improvement too ...

[hougtimo]

I already defrag my registry with tuneup utilities 2006

[boooggy]

i did that too but didnt notice any speed increase....

[cluberti]

Since your registry is allowed to grow to the size of kernel paged pool memory in XP, even with 1GB of memory it can be upwards of 150MB - so 17MB is pretty small .

[firefoxthebomb]

17 MB is not that large, the thing to remember is to keep the registry from errors as opposed to size. you can use programs like ones mentioned here, or like Registry Mechanic, norton system works (win doctor) to get that registry cleaned up (just to name a few)