I was going to give you a pass, but ... go measure the added time it takes
to load a registry with 4 Meg of orphans. It's considerably longer than 1
second, and also depends on knowing the cpu speed, front buss speed,
pagefile status, latencies and buffers statuses. That time is present during
the load and the unload as it spools everything back to disc, not to mention
the movements that must continually happen in RAM as data is pushed around
to make room for or remove other data. You simply cannot say 1.S without
those numbers because your'e talking about a very fast machine when you do.
"When the registry ... " is pure unadulterated crap if one is using a
branded, reputable cleaner.
Maybe the points below will help the OP:
In
VanguardLH said:
- What is currently wrong or failing with the registry?
I may have just noticed an increase of about 40, maybe 60, seconds in boot
time. You should know what that indidates.
- What convinced you that the registry needs to be "cleaned" up?
Depends; The OP didn't say he had a problem; he asked for advice, such as
ccleaner, or Norton tools, or whatever. You provided no such thing and thus
had no business responding.
- What constitutes the "cleaning" actions?
lol, if you don't know, I'm not about to tell you!
- What do you expect to gain from the cleanup?
Either repair of an issue, or possibly simply a process of elimination if
it's possible the registry were at fault. But again, the OP asked for
programs, not your drivel advice.
- What are you going to do if the registry changes hose over
your computer since a restore may not be possible?
That's fantasy. Only malware or kiddie-code could screw up a machine to the
point where it couldn't boot. It's nearly impossible, unless there is
malware or serious code corruption, to stop a machine from boothing using a
reputable program.
- What is your recovery strategy from the registry changes?
Restore Points. Save the System State. Etc.
*_Why the uneducated or lazy should never use registry cleaners_*
If YOU are not adept at *manually* editing the registry, don't use a
tool that you don't understand regarding its proposed changes.
So, don't YOU use a word processor or any office program, because they all
impact the registry with thousands of entries upon install, and if you8
don't know their internal workings completely, don't use it! Or any other
program, for that matter! Just totally ignore the reason any program
exists; to save time and effort.
Regardless of relinquishing the task to software, YOU are the final
authority in allowing it to make the changes. Any registry cleaner
that does not request for YOU to give permission to make its proposed
changes along with listing each proposed change should be discarded.
I don't believe there is any such thing in any but the most pathetic of
examples of malware and kiddie-code.
....
Say there was an unusually high amount of orphaned entries in your
registry, like 4MB. By deleting the orphaned entries, you would
speed up how long it takes Windows to load the registry's files when
it starts up - by all of maybe 1 second.
Wrong. Measure it, or calculate it. With the given information. You cannot
do it.
Oooh, aaah. All that risk
of modifying the registry to save maybe a second, or less, during the
Windows startup.
Wrong again.
....
Cleaning the registry will NOT improve performance in reading from the
memory copy of the registry.
Why is it you dummies think there is no reason to use a registry cleaner
other than to delete orphaned entries? Even discounting your impossible math
above, you suddenly switch to reading RAM all of a sudden. Huh?
The reduced size of the registry's .dat
files might reduce the load time of Windows by all of a second and
probably much less.
Again, something you cannot possibly know based on the info you have.
And you want to risk the stability of your OS
for inconsequential changes to its registry?
No, the OP asked for WHICH program, which you ignored.
The same boobs that get
suckered into these registry cleanup "tools" are the same ones that
get suckered into the memory defragment "tools".
OOF! Now you've clearly shown your ignorance. How the hell do you get from
asking for advice on a registry cleaner to mem defrag? Just another chance
to be condescending, I know. You're a real idiot here.
A registry cleaner should only be used if you by yourself can
correctly cleanup the registry. The cleaner is just a tool to
automate the same process but you should know every change that it
intends to make and understand each of those changes. After all, and
regardless of the stagnant expertise that is hard coded into the
utility, *YOU* are the final authority in what registry changes are
performed whether you do it manually or with a utility. If YOU do
not understand the proposed change (which requires the product
actually divulge the proposed change before committing that change),
how will you know whether or not to allow that change?
Good question and one that's often overlooked because of a refusal to RTFM
by way too many people. Not reading the screen is even worse; most tell you
right on the screen these days; at least all 3 of mine do.
But, you do not have to be a registry expert; what you do need is the
ability to recognize names of your own programs and how to look up whatever
it may be showing you to see whether it's part of one of our own programs or
not.
But again, you've jumped to orphaned entries in your own mind. YOUr
entire post and non-response here are MORONIC. YOU need to seriously get
YOUrself some interpersonal skills on how to work with people and actually
accomplish something good on the groups. As far as I can see YOU're nothing
but a moron.
HTH,
Twayne
