Registry Updates

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Bill Martin

If I change a registry key using a VBS script, does the old key get updated
or is it deleted and a new one created? If I do it 10,000 times do I end up
with a tangled and bloated registry, or would it still be the same as the
original? With Win98 nothing seemed to ever leave the registry, it just kept
layering on top until the system became unreliable.

Specifically, if I use a script to automatically adjust registry values for
OE every time I use it, will it cumulatively make the registry become ugly,
or take longer to search or become unreliable or whatever? Any down side?

Thanks....

Bill -- (Remove KILLSPAM from my address to use it)
 
www.sysinternals.com has a tool for monitoring the registry. Fire it up
make your modification and see what the behavior is.

Windows XP uses the registry quite a lot, you'd be surprised once you fire
up the registry monitor just how much the registry is being used. I'd say
if you make an update to a key it's actually updating it and not deleting
and recreating, but I don't know for sure.

-Casey
 
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