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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Performance / June 2005Does a huge registry effect computer speed?
Hi, Do you think a huge registry (62MB when saved in a .reg file (exported)) would affect the performance of the computer? Like the speed at start-up? Thanks. An exported Registry will not affect performance. What size is the Registry itself? ...Alan  SignatureAlan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/index.html In microsoft.public.win98.performance, "Yizhou" <yizhou@nospam.microsoft.com> wrote: >Hi, > >Do you think a huge registry (62MB when saved in a .reg file (exported)) >would affect the performance of the computer? Like the speed at start-up? > >Thanks. I reckon the registry will probably be pretty big since when it was exported it was big. When programs uninstall, I heard that they may keep their registry keys left behind which means the registry is bigger but when I ran some maintenance programs (e.g. TweakAll), they didn't detect any unnecessary keys. Suppose the computer is a bit old (Cyrix 6x86 - 233mhz with 160MB RAM) > An exported Registry will not affect performance. > What size is the Registry itself? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > > >Thanks. Why not tell us the size? ...Alan SignatureAlan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/index.html In microsoft.public.win98.performance, "Yizhou" <yizhou@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >I reckon the registry will probably be pretty big since when it was exported >it was big. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> > >> >Thanks. > Why not tell us the size? He did...62MB LOL...and I thought mine was bloated at 11.7MB. And thats with dotNET. SignaturedadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico That is not the size of his Registry. That is the size of his export. ...Alan SignatureAlan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/index.html In microsoft.public.win98.performance, "dadiOH" <dadiOH@wherever.com> wrote: >> Why not tell us the size? > >He did...62MB > >LOL...and I thought mine was bloated at 11.7MB. And thats with dotNET. > That is not the size of his Registry. > That is the size of his export. Add up user and system.dat plus the two ini files and it will be close. Smaller but close. Certainly close enough for this discussion. dadiOH _____________ >>> Why not tell us the size? >> >> He did...62MB >> >> LOL...and I thought mine was bloated at 11.7MB. And thats with >> dotNET. Affects use after bootup finished by bogging the PC down with stuff that may be of no longer needed, actually loaded in memory. Affects boot time by having to negotiate the registry instructions for stuff that may or may not be present in the file system. The more there is, the longer it takes. If its really bad, many users choose to start with a clean slate windows rather than try to glean all the trash out of it including the registry. This is probably to most effective way. > Hi, > > Do you think a huge registry (62MB when saved in a .reg file (exported)) > would affect the performance of the computer? Like the speed at start-up? > > Thanks. |
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