The Windows Registry is not defragmented if you defragment your hard drive. This can be quite a problem for users who regularly install and uninstall applications on their system because uninstallers tend to “forget” to remove entries in the Registry during the uninstallation process. It’s astonishing that even the Registry of my brand new system which has been setup only a week ago was highly fragmented.
Defragmenting the Registry with Regdefrag (via Genbeta) would reduce the size from 28904 Kilobyte to 27160 Kilobyte, a reduction of more than 6%. A smaller Registry tends to increase performance on the system and even decrease the time it takes to boot a system. I remember that the Registry on my old computer had a size of 55 Megabytes, that’s twice the size of the current Registry.
The process or defragmentation works exactly the same way as the defragmentation of a hard drive by removing gaps, fragments and wasted space in Windows Registry files.
Analysis and Defragmentation did only take a matter of seconds on my computer, it probably will take longer on slower computers with a larger Registry.
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You really should read what defragmentation is. To defrag a hard drive means to put the bits of a specific file together on the physical medium. The Regdefrag authors simply call their process ‘to defrag’, but it is not the same process. Regdefrag removes unnecessary entries, it does not rearrange the entries that are there. They are taking a technical term and turning it into a marketing term. That’s disgusting.
The only 2 REAL registry “defragment” programs I know of are:
Pagedefrag – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx
and
NTRegOpt (actually compact only function) – http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
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OK. Fine. What should they call it? It’s still a useful utility. And considering Quicksys offers it for free, why should whatever they call it be considered “disgusting.”
hm … what is freeware “marketing” ?
I think the Term ist right: compacting and defragmenting.
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This software doesn’t remove invalid registry entries. It does an internal registry desfragmentation, reallocating the empty spaces from previously removed entries in order to leave it contiguous, so wasting less space and making it faster. So, yes, it really does what it tells. You can read more in the FAQ session in the RegDefrag website. ;-)
Didn’t knew that such a tool exists. Great though, I let it immidiatly run on my pc.
Thanks again!
typo..1st para,last word : i think you mean to say fragmented, not defragmented