compacting registry "Bill Cunningham" <nospam[ at ]nspam.invalid> 11/16/2008 10:33:00 PM Is there any way to compact the registry by hand without having to resort to 3rd party software? Bill

Re: compacting registry "Xandros" <arron.neus*remove*[ at ]gmail.com> 11/16/2008 10:46:17 PM If you have to ask then the answer is you shouldn't try. Windows has a built in registry editor but it is unforgiving. Make a mistake with it and you could certainly render your system inoperable. Most 3rd party programs at least have an undo feature but not so with regedit32 If you use either 3rd party or the Windows registry editor to make any changes to your registry you must ensure you have a decent system recovery process. While some people suggest that System Restore or exporting registry keys is enough caution I advise newbies to make regular full system backups before playing around with the registry. -- Xandros "Bill Cunningham" <nospam[ at ]nspam.invalid> wrote in message news:uLWVLtDSJHA.4084[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Is there any way to compact the registry by hand without having to > resort to 3rd party software? > > Bill > >

Re: compacting registry "Peter Foldes" <okf22[ at ]hotmail.com> 11/17/2008 1:18:25 AM Bill You are asking for trouble and not a small one either. Leave the Registry alone . If you do not know the registry and you do not know what you are doing there can be dire consequences. Registry Tools on the other hand are all snake oil remedies. You will not gain any space and your computer will not be faster . Leave the Registry be. -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Bill Cunningham" <nospam[ at ]nspam.invalid> wrote in message news:uLWVLtDSJHA.4084[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Is there any way to compact the registry by hand without having to > resort to 3rd party software? > > Bill > >

Re: compacting registry "Twayne" <nobody[ at ]devnull.spamcop.net> 11/17/2008 5:56:52 PM [Quoted Text] > If you have to ask then the answer is you shouldn't try. Windows has > a built in registry editor but it is unforgiving. Make a mistake with > it and you could certainly render your system inoperable. Most 3rd > party programs at least have an undo feature but not so with regedit32 > > If you use either 3rd party or the Windows registry editor to make any > changes to your registry you must ensure you have a decent system > recovery process. While some people suggest that System Restore or > exporting registry keys is enough caution I advise newbies to make > regular full system backups before playing around with the registry. Or at least a Restore Point, and a System State backup. I'm curious why you think a full system backup should be done first; are there instances where registry problems can damage data files or somethng? Not that it's ever bad advice to do a backup<g>. Just curious, Twayne > > > "Bill Cunningham" <nospam[ at ]nspam.invalid> wrote in message > news:uLWVLtDSJHA.4084[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Is there any way to compact the registry by hand without having to >> resort to 3rd party software? >> >> Bill

Re: compacting registry "Twayne" <nobody[ at ]devnull.spamcop.net> 11/17/2008 6:00:42 PM [Quoted Text] > Bill > .... > Registry Tools on the other hand are all snake oil remedies. You will > not gain any space and your computer will not be faster . Leave the > Registry be. Nonsense: A Registry Optimizer, especially ntregopt, is perfectly safe and does nothing to any actual registry entries that exist. Twayne > > "Bill Cunningham" <nospam[ at ]nspam.invalid> wrote in message > news:uLWVLtDSJHA.4084[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Is there any way to compact the registry by hand without having to >> resort to 3rd party software? >> >> Bill

Re: compacting registry "Xandros" <arron.neus*remove*[ at ]gmail.com> 11/18/2008 3:01:02 AM "Twayne" <nobody[ at ]devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message news:eE4Td3NSJHA.4148[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >> If you have to ask then the answer is you shouldn't try. Windows has >> a built in registry editor but it is unforgiving. Make a mistake with >> it and you could certainly render your system inoperable. Most 3rd >> party programs at least have an undo feature but not so with regedit32 >> >> If you use either 3rd party or the Windows registry editor to make any >> changes to your registry you must ensure you have a decent system >> recovery process. While some people suggest that System Restore or >> exporting registry keys is enough caution I advise newbies to make >> regular full system backups before playing around with the registry. > > Or at least a Restore Point, and a System State backup. > > I'm curious why you think a full system backup should be done first; are > there instances where registry problems can damage data files or somethng? > Not that it's ever bad advice to do a backup<g>. > > Just curious, > > Twayne > > Because it is the fastest way for a newbie to recover from a problem that renders the system unable to boot. I'm not a big fan of diddling around with the Recovery Console spending countless hours trying to fix this and that. A decent backup and your are set to go. -- Xandros