RL's weightload on my system is approximately four times greater than
that of RegMagik. Here are the numbers I get, upon separate launch of
each one:
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RAM DOWN
RL -13.8
RM -3.7
RESOURCES DOWN (system,gdi,user)
RL -11, -12, -11
RM - 3, - 2, - 3
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For those numbers, I used Memload's snapshot feature, together with the
readout from QuickResource. I did test out in thorough manner - such as
clean reboots, closing of other process, probes for loaded shared modules,
etc. Yet I still consider the numbers above as fairly valid for the general
picture.
This difference matters a lot to me, particularly since I run w98, often
at a state where I have very little to spare in the way of resources; and
during those states need to quickly launch a registry editor without diving
into the red zone.
I am running on WinXp on an 866 PIII and don't find RL slow in any way,
shape or form and I use it often.
I'm running w98 on a 500mhz P~ (-1: Celeron).
When I click to expand the branch HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, I get a significant
delay. An hourglass, no less. RM, on the other hand, it is instantaneous,
at all times.
This is actually a great improvement over RL v 1x. In that one, I was
actually not able to expand HKCR at all, period. It would merely freeze
and die. I posted a message about that on the download.com board, in depth,
and also included a calculated little mention that I could not consider
purchasing their pay version, if witnessing that their Lite version was
dysfunctional. Three weeks after that, they released the fixed version 2x.
You can tell from my story, that I interpret the timing to secretly "take
credit" for their offering an improved release. And the fact is, I am
grateful to the company for spending their development time on improving
a freeware product.
In current incarnation, I've not experienced bugginess nor dysfuncion with
RL. However, on my system, the program remains notably slow for certain
registry naviagations.
I just did a test search on a program
name (Filtergate) ad blocker than I use. 110,392 keys were searched in 11
seconds, producing 41 hits.
I know I said yesterday that I was going to do a thoughtful test on the
search capabilities (instead of relying on faded memory), but have at the
moment still set it aside. Obviously, eleven seconds, that is a good result.
I'll check it out soon.
I actually like the search off in another window.
Each their own. Yet, have you tried the progam with inline results pane, to
know for sure that you like one way better than the other?
You do know that if you that if you double-click on a search hit,
it will open up the key in the main RL window?
Em. Is there some way that I post, which leads to such questions - that I
might be new about things like double-clicking ?
That is VERY useful,
particularly when you are, for instance, trying to manually remove a
Symantec product with hundreds of keys. You can bounce back and forth
without losing where you were. You can't do that with Regedit for instance,
it's only single threaded on search. And in RL, you can also use the
toolbar at the bottom of the search window.
Again, this is an area where I find RM superior. Only the accessed keys
are expanded. Far less cluttered, and much more effective, for a global
view of which keys you've dealt with during that session.
On the other hand, when I arrive anew at a juncture where there exist
parts of the registry that I need to explore, because of not being
familiar with their meanings - as I anticipate will happen when I upgrade
OS, a shift in my current preference will likely follow. That is, I expect
commencing initially with more frequent use of a registry editor that is
always showing me neighboring keys, when I'm navigating, for the sake of
casual, investigative exploring.
