Re: JEP - Registry Relief

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Thank you for your extensive information. Actuallyl the laptop boots in fair
time. I think I have noticed more on the initiation of programs slowing as
other programs are added. I know something happens as you add programs
becuase PC's are so much faster when new. So I was looking for the culprits.
I assumed adding programs slowed the PC down somehow? I think maybe I need
to consider more memory, a deletion of rarely used programs. I do use a
cleaner, CC , I think it means Crap Cleaner. It works well and I have never
destroyed anything deleting all it says to remove. Of course I always do a
Restore Point before anything like that. Thanks again very much!
--
Jack da Shack


"HEMI-Powered" wrote:

=?Utf-8?B?amFjaw==?= added these comments in the current
discussion du jour ...

If I install programs that I do not use that often to run from
a CD, does that put relief on the Registry and possibly make
boot up faster? Space is not an issue, I have the HD space.
Thanks greatly!

Compared to the amount of MB or even GB that your apps may need
to read from your HD when you first launch them, the time spent
in the Registry is miniscule. I have never noticed a significant
rise in boot-up times in many years except if my HD had gotten
very, very fragmented and/or I'd added many new apps. I do clean
my Registry, VERY carefully, but I do NOT - repeat do NOT -
recommend mucking around with Registry cleaners in an attempt to
decrease start-up times! It is extremely unlikely you'll see any
improvement but far more likely that a mistake will render
some/all of your system useless. The reason I do user-controled
cleans of my Registry periodically using JV16 Powertools is that
I know some of my apps leave orphan keys and entries that I do
want to get rid of. But, even if I left the whole thing alone,
there'd be little improvement in anything at all.

In the case of how I actually run my system, my boot-up times are
quite slow but that is because I have my most commonly used apps
in the Programs>Startup folder. I just boot the PC, select the
user account I want, and relax for a bit or do something else. My
PC is more than stable enough that I only rarely have to restart
anyway.

Now, wrt running apps off a CD, that will relieve a minor amount
of overhead when you boot - maybe - but will vastly increase the
amount of time it takes to launch whatever is on your CDs.

And, just out of curiosity, how slow are you booting and why do
you want to try to increase it? I ask because you want to be safe
and ensure that the benefits to what you do are worth any risks.
Good luck!

--
HP, aka Jerry

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