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