In said:
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In Control Panel: System Select the advanced Tab and then performance. Under
Virtual memory select change and at the bottom of the screen you can
increase your registry size. Max is about 132mb The machine will not use the
space unless it needs to. If you see a large increase in the registry hives
you may want to see what applications are adding info.
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Michelle said:
Everytime I restart my computer it says my registry is
low. How do I make it larger and how will I know what size
to make it? This is really making my computer run very
slow. If anyone can help it would greatly be
appreciated.
I have the same problem, registries are growing to 132
MB. How do I check the registry to see what hives are
growing?
Firstly, that is large, but not completely unheard of. Depends on
what you run (OS and applications), Server?, etc. There is a problem
when the aggregate registry size (or just one hive) grows
significantly and over a relatively short period of time for no
apparent reason. Reasonable growth can occur when installing
software; installing drivers or devices and other expected causes.
Once you backup the registry using tools like ERUNT or ntbackup
("ERD" + "also backup...") you can observe the hive files on disk for
changes in size. This may be more consistent than looking at the
open System (or User) hive files.
More likely than not it is the SOFTWARE hive and is due to some bad
application.
To get more you need to monitor the registry during operation
(especially with a suspect app.).
That could be a registry snap-shot tool for example, or possibly a
"live" registry monitoring tool such as regmon.exe
(
www.sysinternals.com). Regmon might be too difficult due to the
very large number registry operations that occur normally.