Acronis True Image 10 or Norton Ghost 10?

[isotobin@identicalimagepleez.org]

"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in
news:OuxljgWGHHA.2464@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> Reinstalls once a year, why, what are you doing to your sys?
>


1) I think it's recommended by many techs and
2) My registry becomes bloated after awhile, and I'm one of these people
who are constantly questioning strange dll's and exe files.

It's amazing what even the most benign sites can do with their cookies and
Javascript files. Do a regedit and go through your root and HKLM strings
and tell me how many strings there are that you would question.

[louise]

isotobin@identicalimagepleez.org wrote:
> "DL" <address@invalid> wrote in
> news:OuxljgWGHHA.2464@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:
>
>> Reinstalls once a year, why, what are you doing to your sys?
>>
>
>
> 1) I think it's recommended by many techs and
> 2) My registry becomes bloated after awhile, and I'm one of these people
> who are constantly questioning strange dll's and exe files.
>
> It's amazing what even the most benign sites can do with their cookies and
> Javascript files. Do a regedit and go through your root and HKLM strings
> and tell me how many strings there are that you would question.
>
I've happily used JV16 to clean the registry. When I
uninstall a particularly intrusive program, I use JV16 to
seek out all references to those particular files.

Every once in a while I defrag the registry.

I've not had the need to reinstall.

Also, if you "reinstall" from an image, you're taking all
the stuff you're complaining about with you to your new
installation - aren't you?

Louise

[Heather]

"louise" <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> I've happily used JV16 to clean the registry. When I uninstall a
> particularly intrusive program, I use JV16 to seek out all references
> to those particular files.
>
> Every once in a while I defrag the registry.
>
OK......I use JV 16 myself. It is the only one I trust.

But "defrag the registry"???? What in heck do you mean by that??

Baffled

[Ron Lopshire]

Heather wrote:
> "louise" <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4tpgk4F15b86lU2@mid.individual.net...
>
>>I've happily used JV16 to clean the registry. When I uninstall a
>>particularly intrusive program, I use JV16 to seek out all references
>>to those particular files.
>>
>>Every once in a while I defrag the registry.
>
> OK......I use JV 16 myself. It is the only one I trust.
>
> But "defrag the registry"???? What in heck do you mean by that??

Heather,

NTREGOPT - free for personal use, read the EULA/Disclaimer.

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Quote: "Similar to Windows 9x/Me, the registry files in an NT-based
system can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your
hard disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. You
should use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after
installing or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the
registry files and optimize registry access.

The program works by recreating each registry hive "from scratch",
thus removing any slack space that may be left from previously
modified or deleted keys.

Note that the program does NOT change the contents of the registry in
any way, nor does it physically defrag the registry files on the drive
(as the PageDefrag program from SysInternals does). The optimization
done by NTREGOPT is simply compacting the registry hives to the
minimum size possible."

Ron

[Heather]

Thank you, kind sir. Being a former WinME user, I am always wary of new
programs (to me)......but I do know that some of my MVP buds recommend
the ERUNT one. I have a ton of stuff I would like to remove from the
registry, but I am not knowledgeable enuf to mess with that.

Cheers...Heather (and yes, top posting is de rigeur on MS ng's, so I
have picked up bad habits, lol)

"Ron Lopshire" <notron@ovbl.org> wrote in message
news:sqXdh.8472$1s6.303@newsread2.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
> Heather wrote:
>>
>> OK......I use JV 16 myself. It is the only one I trust.
>>
>> But "defrag the registry"???? What in heck do you mean by that??
>
> Heather,
>
> NTREGOPT - free for personal use, read the EULA/Disclaimer.
>
> http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
>
> Quote: "Similar to Windows 9x/Me, the registry files in an NT-based
> system can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your
> hard disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. You
> should use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after
> installing or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the
> registry files and optimize registry access.
>
> The program works by recreating each registry hive "from scratch",
> thus removing any slack space that may be left from previously
> modified or deleted keys.
>
> Note that the program does NOT change the contents of the registry in
> any way, nor does it physically defrag the registry files on the drive
> (as the PageDefrag program from SysInternals does). The optimization
> done by NTREGOPT is simply compacting the registry hives to the
> minimum size possible."
>
> Ron

[louise]

Heather wrote:
> "louise" <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4tpgk4F15b86lU2@mid.individual.net...
>> I've happily used JV16 to clean the registry. When I uninstall a
>> particularly intrusive program, I use JV16 to seek out all references
>> to those particular files.
>>
>> Every once in a while I defrag the registry.
>>
> OK......I use JV 16 myself. It is the only one I trust.
>
> But "defrag the registry"???? What in heck do you mean by that??
>
> Baffled
>
>
I found out about this little free utility through someone I
trust, I can't remember who :-) But I've used it a few
times during the last six months with a mildly noticeable
speed increase. I've only had it about six months.

Go to this link and on the left , about midway down the
page, you see a link for a free registry defrag

http://www.registry-clean.net/index.htm?rd

Louise

[Rube Bumpkin]

louise wrote:
> Heather wrote:
>
>> "louise" <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:4tpgk4F15b86lU2@mid.individual.net...
>>
>>> I've happily used JV16 to clean the registry. When I uninstall a
>>> particularly intrusive program, I use JV16 to seek out all references
>>> to those particular files.
>>>
>>> Every once in a while I defrag the registry.
>>>
>> OK......I use JV 16 myself. It is the only one I trust.
>>
>> But "defrag the registry"???? What in heck do you mean by that??
>>
>> Baffled
>>
> I found out about this little free utility through someone I trust, I
> can't remember who :-) But I've used it a few times during the last six
> months with a mildly noticeable speed increase. I've only had it about
> six months.
>
> Go to this link and on the left , about midway down the page, you see a
> link for a free registry defrag
>
> http://www.registry-clean.net/index.htm?rd
>
> Louise

You can also use pagedefrag. It's available from sysinternals (recently
sucked into M$). Go to www.sysinternals.com and you'll get redirected.

It works on the next (or optionally every) reboot and is fast and effective.

RB

[isotobin@identicalimagepleez.org]

louise <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in news:4tpgk4F15b86lU2
@mid.individual.net:

> Also, if you "reinstall" from an image, you're taking all
> the stuff you're complaining about with you to your new
> installation - aren't you?
>

No - because I would just reinstall an image of the OS and it's upgrades,
plus all the programs like MS Office, Firefox, AV, firewall, etc. that I
would always load. That would save me about 85% of the time in reloading
everything. If I do it once a year, I can then pick and choose from all
the other programs I want to reinstall (ie which anti-spyware programs I
thought were best, registry utilities, audio/video codecs, etc.).

The codecs alone with shockwave and other plugins can wreak havoc with
video files and cause major conflicts (ffmpeg/ffdshow alone adds all kinds
of strings to the registry as does all the other codecs).

[Ron Martell]

isotobin@identicalimagepleez.org wrote:

>"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in
>news:OuxljgWGHHA.2464@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:
>
>> Reinstalls once a year, why, what are you doing to your sys?
>>
>
>
>1) I think it's recommended by many techs and

Only the incompetent ones.


>2) My registry becomes bloated after awhile, and I'm one of these people
>who are constantly questioning strange dll's and exe files.

Registry bloat cannot slow down your computer to any significant
extent. The worst case scenario is that the enlarged registry uses
more RAM thereby resulting in increased use of the paging file.

>
>It's amazing what even the most benign sites can do with their cookies and
>Javascript files. Do a regedit and go through your root and HKLM strings
>and tell me how many strings there are that you would question.

It would take literally days to do this, and to what avail?

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

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