Program that shows percentage of registry occupied by a program?

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Even though I use Total Uninstall, Regcleaner and Regseeker, my registry
has grown to 14 mB. I would like to see which programs take up a lot of
space, if I don't use them a lot, I might as well uninstall them.

Is there a program that gives this information?
 
Onno said:
Even though I use Total Uninstall, Regcleaner and Regseeker, my registry
has grown to 14 mB. I would like to see which programs take up a lot of
space, if I don't use them a lot, I might as well uninstall them.
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Does the registry free up and become more efficient when one deletes
apps that write to it?
Is there a program that gives this information?
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Diskdata is nice and there are old freeware builds about.
 
Onno Voors said:
Program that shows percentage of registry occupied by a program?
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Is there a program that gives this information?
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No idea. Would be useful.

BTW, I once noticed that a a $ware dvd player added 2294 keys
and 3194 values (I got rid of it). To put this into perspective, Open
Office 1.1.2 added 1528 new values and 1195 values.

benny
 
Onno Voors said:
Even though I use Total Uninstall, Regcleaner and Regseeker, my registry
has grown to 14 mB. I would like to see which programs take up a lot of
space, if I don't use them a lot, I might as well uninstall them.
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This prog can strip a lot of debris from a bloated registry ... OleClean
v1.4 ..... 254kB Freeware..... I had over 600 duff entries in my registry.
It is available here ...
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download452.html
As with any registry prog handle with care!

For examining Hard Drive space usage I swear by Steffan Gelach's 'scanner'.
162kB Freeware. Superb visual indication of space usage, hover mouse over
relevant part of display for text info....
Its available here ...
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

regards
brainz
 
Does the registry free up and become more efficient when one deletes
apps that write to it?
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In principle it does, when you delete registry keys and values that you
don't need.
Diskdata is nice and there are old freeware builds about
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Thank you, but that seems to be for disk space only.
 
BTW, I once noticed that a a $ware dvd player added 2294 keys
and 3194 values (
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What program did you use to get this info? Can it only be used during
installation or also afterwards? I don't necessarily need percentages,
absolute figures are good enough. I can do the maths myself.
 
Onno Voors said:
What program did you use to get this info? Can it only be used during
installation or also afterwards?
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PCMag's InCtrl5 can do that. Yes, the information comes afterwards.
Strictly spoken it's not freeware anymore, I guess, but you can still
find it.

http://members.tripod.com/randy_hall/download.htm

Download the ChkCtrl5 file and you get InCtrl5 + the companion utility
ChkCtrl5. I don't think I've seen ChkCtrl5 mentioned here.

"From the "Files added: " section of the InCtrl5 text report, ChkCtrl5
will check every file listed to see if it still exists. If it does, a
DOS DELETE command will be generated in the .BAT file for the file
name.

From the registry "Keys added:" section, ChkCtrl5 will check the key
to see if it still exists in the registry. If it does, a REGEDIT4
command will be generated in the .REG file to delete the key. Since
any sub-keys under a main key are deleted when the main key is
deleted, ChkCtrl5 will check to see if a key is a sub-key of a main
key. If it is, no delete command is generated.

From the registry "Values added:" section, ChkCtrl5 will check the key
to see if it still exists in the registry. If It does, a REGEDIT4
command will be generated in the .REG file to delete the key. Since
any sub-keys under a main key are deleted when the main key is
deleted, ChkCtrl5 will check to see if a value key is a sub-key of an
added main key in the "Keys added:" section. If it is, no delete
command is generated.

From the "Sections added: " and the "Lines added: " section of the
InCtrl5 text report, ChkCtrl5 will list all entries found in the
_DATA.TXT file for the file name. This file will not make any changes
to the .INI or TEXT file. You must edit them and make the changes."

Frank
 
PCMag's InCtrl5 can do that. Yes, the information comes afterwards.
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I have tried it, but, correct me if I'm wrong, it seems to be a program
like Total Uninstall.
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I am not looking for an install monitor; I
have TUN already. I am looking for a program that can tell me how many
registry entries all installed programs on my computer occupy. Preferably
in percentages, but absolute figures will do.
 
Onno Voors said:
I have tried it, but, correct me if I'm wrong, it seems to be a program
like Total Uninstall.
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I am not looking for an install monitor; I
have TUN already. I am looking for a program that can tell me how many
registry entries all installed programs on my computer occupy. Preferably
in percentages, but absolute figures will do.
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I don't see your problem. InCtrl5 gives, among other things, the
number of new keys en the number of new values. Isn't that what you
want? You can save the log file as html, csv or txt (the latter is
recommended).

Frank
 
lunedì 26/lug/2004 _Frank Delamarre_ in
I don't see your problem. InCtrl5 gives, among other things, the
number of new keys en the number of new values. Isn't that what you
want? You can save the log file as html, csv or txt (the latter is
recommended).
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As I understand, and find interesting, he wants to see the number of
registry entries for each program _already_ installed on his computer.
 
lunedì 26/lug/2004 _Frank Delamarre_ in


As I understand, and find interesting, he wants to see the number of
registry entries for each program _already_ installed on his computer.
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Exactly.
 
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