Re: WIll reinstalling XP remove unnecesary registry entries?

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Lil' Dave <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx> typed:

> "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "VMI" <vonchi_m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> If I decide to reinstall XP, will this clean up the registry?
>>
>>
>>
>> If you do a clean reinstallation, yes; it will rebuild the
>> registry from scratch.
>>
>> But why do you think you need to "clean up the registry"? It's
>> normally not at all necessary.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>
>>
>
> Since the 98 OS, I've done a clean install every year with each
> MS OS
> I've had installed on my past PCs. Have had everyone except
> Win2k.
> Spend most of the time writing zeroes to the hard drive with
> the hard
> drive manufacturers utility during each process. This is
> standard
> annual maintenance for me.


Your choice, of course. In my view, it's completely unnecessary
and a big waste of time and effort. If you maintain your system
even reasonably well, it should never be necessary to do this.

I've run Windows 3.0, 3.1, WFWG 3.11, 95, 98, 2000 and XP on
multiple machines here, almost every one from the day it was
first released until it was replaced by the next version. I've
never reinstalled any of them, and I've never had any performance
problems with any of them.


> All the MS OSes run better than the one year old install
> version as far as
> user interpreted speed by my own experiences.


If that's your experience, I can't argue with it. It's not at all
my experience, nor is it that of the many other people I know who
run Windows.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup


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