1. my computer is responding very slowly (much more
slowly than when I first installed XP (upgrade to 98)
2. I occasionally do a registry export as a backup and
have noticed that what used to by 10 megs is now 68 megs
and growing.
any advice? (appreciate and email in addition to
posting)
Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS
(!) to make a complete backup of the registry. Neither
does it export the whole registry (for example, no
information from the "SECURITY" hive is saved), nor can
the exported file be used later to replace the current
registry with the old one. Instead, if you re-import the
file, it is merged with the current registry, leaving you
with an absolute mess of old and new registry keys."
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/
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On my desktop running a 2 year old XP setup, a single registry backup
created with erunt (for system and current user only) is 48MB. When the
registry reached a certain size in Win95 and Win98, there was some
concern about its stability. That concern is not present in XP.
Also, would like to say that Registry Editor's export function is not
useful or effective as a full registry backup tool. Better choices: use
System Restore to create a restore point or use a third party tool such
as the erunt app that has already been mentioned in this thread.
--
Sharon F
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
>Appreciate both your thoughts but neither of you
>addresses my question. Is the registry getting
>unreasonably huge and is this a cause of the XP
>increasing slowness?
It is not out of the way. There may be some slack space in it, and what
I would do is get ERUNT from
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt
which includes NTREGOPT, run that to shake the slack out and use ERUNT
as a backup
--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. Al...@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)