gHacks technology news » windows performance http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Defrag the Registry with Regdefrag http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/13/defrag-the-registry-with-regdefrag/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/13/defrag-the-registry-with-regdefrag/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 16:05:17 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4112 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.

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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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With RegCleaner you can remove obsolete software references, clean your startup list, uninstall or remove entries from the software uninstall window, remove file type associations, clean the new file type menu and edit shell extensions. It gives you the option to do this manually or suggest entries that can be removed. Everything is backed up, easy to undo errors this way.

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