Re: Registry Cleaning?
- From: keepout@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:17:19 -0500
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:11:19 -0000, "Jon" <Email_Address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Actually that's incorrect. An application can easily, and often does, ask
for all values contained within a particular key (eg a set of folder paths),
without knowing beforehand the number of entries it will retrieve back. If
it retrieves and processes 6000, then this will necessarily take longer than
if it retrieves and processes 20. Simple. It aint rocket science.
Now if it so happens that a proportion, or even a majority, of those 6000
are superfluous invalid entries, then this is an example of where a
registry cleaner can save the day.
If there's even one invalid entry, it was written by the program retrieving
it. IOW: It ain't gonna happen. As for 6000 entries, not even the most bloated
windows program comes anywhere near 500 keys. At 1.8 ghz, reading those 500
keys would take less than a second.
The only lag would be reading from disk.
invalid entries are left over by poorly written removal programs that totally
ignore cleaning out any registry entries installed. And that's mostly every
program. And with the programs removed, they'll never touch those registry
entry's again. And still the number of invalid entries being read from disk at
300 mps, won't take any time at all.
There's no arguments that can validate sending a program that no one knows what
it's doing, much less what they are doing to start deleting stuff from the
heart of most every program including the OS.
The savings in speed on today's machines are negligible.
Last I checked, my registry had over 29,000 keys. Still programs only read the
keys they need.
.
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