Q
Querulantus
Please have a look here:
<http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=465>
then click on the author's name and you can read:
You have been redirected to this page to let you know that this author
either:
- Does not have a website
- The website has disappeared
- They are no longer in business
- They are no longer supporting this particular program
The program, RegCompact, is/was shareware but apparently has become
abandonware. Do we call it freeware now, or what.
From the site mentioned above:
"when data are removed from the registry it's space is not reclaimed
until more data overwrites the empty space. This has a significant
impact on the performance of Windows and programs that make heavy use
of the registry. It is most evident at boot time and when running
programs that use lots of COM classes (such as Microsoft Office,
Internet Explorer, any programs written in Visual Basic, and lots of
commercial software)."
This is what it does (very well):
"RegCompact eliminates registry fragmentation by writing the data in
the registry out into a temporary file. This data are written
sequentially, so there are no holes from deleted data or
fragmentation."
If it's not freeware, is there freeware like it?
I am not sure how XP handles a bloated registry, but 2K needs such
software. It just reduced my ntuser.dat from 3.7 to 1.2 Mb! W'98 has
scanreg (?) which can compact the registry (scanreg /opt, or
something).
Querulantus
<http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=465>
then click on the author's name and you can read:
You have been redirected to this page to let you know that this author
either:
- Does not have a website
- The website has disappeared
- They are no longer in business
- They are no longer supporting this particular program
The program, RegCompact, is/was shareware but apparently has become
abandonware. Do we call it freeware now, or what.
From the site mentioned above:
"when data are removed from the registry it's space is not reclaimed
until more data overwrites the empty space. This has a significant
impact on the performance of Windows and programs that make heavy use
of the registry. It is most evident at boot time and when running
programs that use lots of COM classes (such as Microsoft Office,
Internet Explorer, any programs written in Visual Basic, and lots of
commercial software)."
This is what it does (very well):
"RegCompact eliminates registry fragmentation by writing the data in
the registry out into a temporary file. This data are written
sequentially, so there are no holes from deleted data or
fragmentation."
If it's not freeware, is there freeware like it?
I am not sure how XP handles a bloated registry, but 2K needs such
software. It just reduced my ntuser.dat from 3.7 to 1.2 Mb! W'98 has
scanreg (?) which can compact the registry (scanreg /opt, or
something).
Querulantus