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