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Arnold72

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REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION.
« on: June 20, 2012, 05:21:12 PM »
hi
Is it a good idea to defrag the registry?
If so could anyone recommend any good programs for this purpose?
Thanks.
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Re: REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION.
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2012, 05:25:47 PM »
For the most part there is little benefit in it and messing with the registry can ruin your whole day (and possibly longer).

Before even contemplating such a thing you should have a robust backup and recovery strategy; that usually takes the form of hard disk imaging software, where you can restore an exact copy of a partition/disk from outside windows.
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Re: REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION.
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2012, 05:27:12 PM »
you may find what you need/want here

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Re: REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION.
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2012, 05:55:53 PM »
The free version of Puran Defrag will defragment the registry, the MFT, and the pagefile in a boot time defrag. It's also perfectly safe.
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Re: REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION.
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2012, 06:06:06 PM »
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Re: REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION.
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2012, 06:22:18 PM »
Wise Registry Cleaner is imo the best. By far.
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Re: REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION.
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2012, 07:41:26 PM »
Quote from: JuninhoSlo on June 20, 2012, 06:06:06 PM
You can try Eusing Free Registry Defrag

http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_defrag/registry_defrag.htm
If i was to ever use anything in the registry further than what CCleaner can do it would only be Eusing, great program. As DavidR mentioned earlyer Backup strategy comes first !
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Re: REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION.
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2012, 11:05:46 PM »
Quote from: Dch48 on June 20, 2012, 05:55:53 PM
The free version of Puran Defrag will defragment the registry, the MFT, and the pagefile in a boot time defrag. It's also perfectly safe.
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Ive read that the boot time defrag in puran deletes the restore points.
Im actually using puran and it seems a very good program.
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Re: REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION.
« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2012, 05:35:28 AM »
Quote from: Arnold72 on June 20, 2012, 11:05:46 PM
Quote from: Dch48 on June 20, 2012, 05:55:53 PM
The free version of Puran Defrag will defragment the registry, the MFT, and the pagefile in a boot time defrag. It's also perfectly safe.
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Ive read that the boot time defrag in puran deletes the restore points.
Im actually using puran and it seems a very good program.
You have read wrong. It doesn't do anything to the restore points except defragment them.  In fact, sometimes they don't get defragmented so I have adopted the practice of turning off System Restore before doing a boot defrag and then turning it back on afterwards and creating a new fresh starting point.
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Arnold72

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Re: REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION.
« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2012, 12:59:10 PM »
Hi DCH48,
Thank you for clarifying this. ;D
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