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How To Thin Your Registry
Registry
plays an important role, in your windows environment, especially in your Window loading
processs. Larger the registry file, longer time required to load your Windows. The
registry consist of two hidden files, user.dat (which have your user information) and
system.dat (which have your computer hardware information). Damaging these two files will
result in damaging your windows.
Overtime, your registry will became bigger, since you install and uninstall frequently,
the uninstall program will not clear the prevously appended data. Therefore, using this
technique decrease your windows startup time..
Make
registry backup.
To make registry backup, first, you have to copy the file into another safe location. For
example, another directory in your harddisk. Enable the see all files in your windows
explorer. How? Click see all files in your View settings.
Run
Regedit.
How?? Click Start->Run-> Type "regedit"->OK.
Export
your registry.
At file Menu, choose export, save exported file as COMPACT.REG, int the
root directory, (i'm assuming that your root directory is "c".
Finished??
Then exit to DOS, from DOS type the command below.
Go
to windows directory
type this. "c:\> cd
\windows"
Change
user.dat file attribute
"c:\windows>attrib user.dat -h
-r -s -a"
Why?? because user.dat is hidden, and it is a readonly file. Therefore in order to change
the registry, you need to make them writeable.
Change
system.dat file attribute,
"c:\windows> attrib system.dat
-h -r -s -a"
Why?? because system is also hidden, and it is a readonly file. Therefore to change the
registry, you need to make them writeable.
Note
down your registry file size.
"c:\windows> dir *.dat"
This is to compare your registry file after you do cleanup process.
Type
this command run clean the registry
"c:\windows> regedit /c
c:\COMPACT.REG"
Note: this process is a very long
process, about 1 hour on a pentium 100Mhz, and it is also depend on your registry file
size.
Compare
After that compare your new registry file size
with the noted down value.
What
to do if you cannot load your windows!
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