Does anyone know of any "FREE" software that will defragment the registry, cheers.
RegCompact.NET
http://experimentalscene.com/?type=1&id=1
NTREGOPT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
tried both... work well...
RegCompact.NEThttp://experimentalscene.com/?type=1&id=1
NTREGOPT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
tried both... work well...
NTREGOPT is awesome. I need to run it again.
I'm running that now. It certainly seems to be a reasonable piece of software, and quick too.
I'm running that now. It certainly seems to be a reasonable piece of software, and quick too. cool.gif
ya... it is faster than RegCompact.NET... but RegCompact.NET have better GUI... i think that's all...
Does NTREGOPT really defrag the registry it seems a lot lot faster then other pay for ones Ive tried. Also any recommendations of how often i should run it.
Does NTREGOPT really defrag the registry it seems a lot lot faster then other pay for ones Ive tried.
i think so...
Also any recommendations of how often i should run it.
maybe at least once a month and after program installation and uninstallation to ensure your registry remains optimized.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone.
The Registry is just a set of files as any other. So it can be defragmented. But i thought it could only be done at boot time, this is what i was told anyway.
Anyway, i have always used Pagedefrag (from sysinternals):
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml
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The registry "fragmentation" that most people talk about is one of two things:
1) The hive files themselves which can become fragmented on the disk (use Raxco Perfectdisk or Pagedefrag above or something)
2) The hive files contain keys that were deleted but have not been purged yet (just like Win9x -- use NTREGOPT for this)
The registry "fragmentation" that most people talk about is one of two things:1) The hive files themselves which can become fragmented on the disk (use Raxco Perfectdisk or Pagedefrag above or something)
2) The hive files contain keys that were deleted but have not been purged yet (just like Win9x -- use NTREGOPT for this)
Good programs T.
I like then.
Thanks
K Doty
here are some good free defragmenters which can be used along side NTREGOPT and Pagedefrag:
O&O Defrag 2000 Freeware Edition 3.5.562
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4545.html
Dirms and Buzzsaw
Diskeeper Lite 7.0
The funny thing is everytime I run the WinXP disk defragmenter and then open PageDefrag it doesn't show any fragmentation -- so who knows how successful they really are on WinXP systems.
On Win98 it's a completely different matter since the Win98 disk defragmenter won't even touch system.dat, and user.dat, those files will become very fragmented but there's some hope as detailed below.
On Win98 a completely free way to "defrag", "compact" the Win98 registry is at a command prompt in MS-DOS type in: SCANREG /FIX
This will cause the Microsoft Registry Checking program to rebuild the whole registry, I've used it for years with my Win98 system and not once has it ever caused any problems.
I do it the old fashioned way in Windows 9x. :
smartdrvscandiskregedit /e reg.txtregedit /c reg.txtsmartdrv /x
"Registry Compactor" Ace Utilities. Here is the website:Acelogix. Look under Download.
quote=englishmen,Apr 2 2005, 09:35 AM]
Does anyone know of any "FREE" software that will defragment the registry, cheers.
Don't see any 'free stuff'.
I do it the old fashioned way in Windows 9x. :
smartdrvscandiskregedit /e reg.txtregedit /c reg.txtsmartdrv /x
Something to be put in CCleaner?
Any risk?
It's just not something CCleaner should or could do, and the risk is in compacting a registry that has corruption in it (which results in a largely truncated registry).
It's just not something CCleaner should or could do, and the risk is in compacting a registry that has corruption in it (which results in a largely truncated registry).
Any way to fix it, if this is the case?