Registry Size

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What is the penalty in performance for the registry getting large?

Mine has more than doubled from 10 mb to 22 mb in less than two years. It
has to have a lot of trash in it. Does that slow boot time? Cost RAM
loaded with stuff that is irrelevant?

Would appreciate a comment from someone, or a link to a good reference.

TIA, pjl
 
Paul Lady said:
What is the penalty in performance for the registry getting large?

Mine has more than doubled from 10 mb to 22 mb in less than two years. It
has to have a lot of trash in it.
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Not necessarily. If you have a standard suite of major apps
loaded (IE, MS-Office, etc) and the usual host of utilities and
lesser programs, 15-25MB is about right. Larger registries
don't cause a performance penalty, and if you're that short of
RAM to be worrying about an extra few MB then the solution
is to install more memory.
Does that slow boot time? Cost RAM
loaded with stuff that is irrelevant?

Would appreciate a comment from someone, or a link to a good reference.
Click to expand...

Before using a registry cleaner, which can cause very subtle and
hard to trace problems, you might want to take an hour or so
and look through your registry manually. Chances are you won't
find much irrelevant stuff there. Most major apps (MS-Office,
anything from Adobe, AutoDesk etc) these days are *major*
registry hogs.

Rick
 
Paul Lady said:
What is the penalty in performance for the registry getting large?

Mine has more than doubled from 10 mb to 22 mb in less than two years. It
has to have a lot of trash in it.
Click to expand...

Not necessarily. If you have a standard suite of major apps
loaded (IE, MS-Office, etc) and the usual host of utilities and
lesser programs, 15-25MB is about right. Larger registries
don't cause a performance penalty, and if you're that short of
RAM to be worrying about an extra few MB then the solution
is to install more memory.
Does that slow boot time? Cost RAM
loaded with stuff that is irrelevant?

Would appreciate a comment from someone, or a link to a good reference.
Click to expand...

Before using a registry cleaner, which can cause very subtle and
hard to trace problems, you might want to take an hour or so
and look through your registry manually. Chances are you won't
find much irrelevant stuff there. Most major apps (MS-Office,
anything from Adobe, AutoDesk etc) these days are *major*
registry hogs.

Rick
 
Rick, thx for the comments. I have the suite you describe, including
Mechanical Desk Top, and didn't realize the impact. Guess it's just normal
for W2K.

Yup, good old 512 doesn't cut it any more, and I guess I'm gonna have to pop
for another chunk of RAM. Hate putting it into SD any more with DDR being
hot, but at least it will keep things perking for another year or so.

THX again, pjl
 
Rick, thx for the comments. I have the suite you describe, including
Mechanical Desk Top, and didn't realize the impact. Guess it's just normal
for W2K.

Yup, good old 512 doesn't cut it any more, and I guess I'm gonna have to pop
for another chunk of RAM. Hate putting it into SD any more with DDR being
hot, but at least it will keep things perking for another year or so.

THX again, pjl
 
In said:
Not necessarily. If you have a standard suite of major apps
loaded (IE, MS-Office, etc) and the usual host of utilities and
lesser programs, 15-25MB is about right. Larger registries
don't cause a performance penalty, and if you're that short of
RAM to be worrying about an extra few MB then the solution
is to install more memory.


Before using a registry cleaner, which can cause very subtle and
hard to trace problems, you might want to take an hour or so
and look through your registry manually. Chances are you won't
find much irrelevant stuff there. Most major apps (MS-Office,
anything from Adobe, AutoDesk etc) these days are *major*
registry hogs.
Click to expand...

And not to forget the less obvious such as Creative Labs registry
bloating. Symantec is another candidate.

IMO 22 MB is not out of line. If it grows in size constantly for no
apparent reason, then I'd be concerned.
 
In said:
Not necessarily. If you have a standard suite of major apps
loaded (IE, MS-Office, etc) and the usual host of utilities and
lesser programs, 15-25MB is about right. Larger registries
don't cause a performance penalty, and if you're that short of
RAM to be worrying about an extra few MB then the solution
is to install more memory.


Before using a registry cleaner, which can cause very subtle and
hard to trace problems, you might want to take an hour or so
and look through your registry manually. Chances are you won't
find much irrelevant stuff there. Most major apps (MS-Office,
anything from Adobe, AutoDesk etc) these days are *major*
registry hogs.
Click to expand...

And not to forget the less obvious such as Creative Labs registry
bloating. Symantec is another candidate.

IMO 22 MB is not out of line. If it grows in size constantly for no
apparent reason, then I'd be concerned.
 
In said:
Rick, thx for the comments. I have the suite you describe,
including Mechanical Desk Top, and didn't realize the impact.
Guess it's just normal for W2K.

Yup, good old 512 doesn't cut it any more, and I guess I'm gonna
have to pop for another chunk of RAM. Hate putting it into SD any
more with DDR being hot, but at least it will keep things perking
for another year or so.
Click to expand...

Are you discussing the registry size allocation or the paging file
size and physical RAM? Different animals.
 
In said:
Rick, thx for the comments. I have the suite you describe,
including Mechanical Desk Top, and didn't realize the impact.
Guess it's just normal for W2K.

Yup, good old 512 doesn't cut it any more, and I guess I'm gonna
have to pop for another chunk of RAM. Hate putting it into SD any
more with DDR being hot, but at least it will keep things perking
for another year or so.
Click to expand...

Are you discussing the registry size allocation or the paging file
size and physical RAM? Different animals.
 
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