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Launch Windows, open a folder or file, install, remove or run a program — just about everything you do on a PC results in Windows writing to the Registry. And over time that means the Registry files will grow, as they contain more and more “slack space”, gaps where old entries used to be.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t particularly harmful, but it does waste a little memory and hard drive space. And so you might like to try Tweaking.com\u2019s Registry Compressor<\/a>, a small and simple tool which can defragment your Registry, removing this slack space (nothing else — this isn\u2019t a Registry cleaner) and cutting the files down to size.<\/p>\n The defragmentation process isn\u2019t particularly difficult or dangerous, but plainly if there is a problem, and the Registry is corrupted, then it could trash your PC. And so we\u2019d recommend caution. Only run Registry Compressor on a system which has been fully backed up. And close down all running programs before you launch it, too (you\u2019ll want to minimize Registry activity while the program runs).<\/p>\n With that done, fire up Registry Compressor, click Analyze, and after a few seconds it\u2019ll present some figures on how bloated your Registry files might be. This can deliver some apparently dramatic results, with for instance some of the smaller files on our test PC being anything up to 9 times larger than necessary. Overall, though, fragmentation wasn\u2019t a major problem: the total size of our Registry was currently 172MB, and Registry Compressor claimed it could reduce this to 168.99MB, a 1.75 percent saving.<\/p>\n Once our system had restarted, we ran Registry Compressor again, just to see what its analysis revealed now. And sure enough, it seemed to have worked, as our fragmentation had dropped to 0.1MB, or about 0.06 percent.<\/p>\n Is this worth the effort? We saw no obvious performance improvement, but perhaps that\u2019s because our test system wasn\u2019t too badly fragmented in the first place.<\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to try Registry Compressor<\/a> on your own system, though, it\u2019s very quick and easy (a 335KB download, no installation required, no adware), and simply seeing a report on the degree of Registry fragmentation could be interesting. Just be sure you use it with care; backup your system and close programs beforehand, and reboot your system immediately afterwards.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> Andrew Park <\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n Launch Windows, open a folder or file, install, remove or run a program — just about everything you do on a PC results in Windows writing to the Registry. And over time that means the Registry files will grow, as they contain more and more “slack space”, gaps where old entries used to be. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/registry-compressor.jpg\" "\\"registry")
Still, if your system shows a larger figure — or you\u2019re just thinking that “every little helps” — then all you have to do is click “Compress”. After a second or two (it\u2019s very quick) the program will tell you it\u2019s done, and recommend you reboot. And as we\u2019re not quite sure how this defragmentation will affect processes which are currently accessing the Registry, it\u2019s probably a good idea to do this right away.<\/p>\n\n<\/img><\/a>
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