Re: The Windows registery - not very good

Sermo Malifer wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 22:48:55 -0700, Steve de Mena wrote:

GreyCloud wrote:
Steve de Mena wrote:
GreyCloud wrote:
Steve de Mena wrote:
Someone sent this out on Twitter today....

"Clean Up and Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac"

http://lifehacker.com/5252183/clean-up-and-revive-your-bloated-
sluggish-mac


And you still believe in fairy tales too I see. Couldn't debate the
points I made so you resorted to this, eh wintroll?
Oh the points like how Windows takes longer to startup with a large
registry? Despite the fact that only a couple of keys are read during
startup for specific bootup and startup items? (NOT "the whole
registry")


http://www.pc-washer.com/optimize-windows/speed-up-boot-shutdown-time.php


Fine-Tune Your Registry for Faster Startups
Over time, your Registry can become bloated with unused entries, slowing down your system startup because your system loads them every time you start up your PC. Get a Registry clean-up tool to delete unneeded Registry entries and speed up startup times. Registry First Aid, shown in Figure 1, is an excellent Registry clean-up tool. It combs your Registry for outdated and useless entries and then lets you choose which entries to delete and which to keep. It also creates a full Registry backup so that you can restore the Registry if you run into a problem.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how_to/4306154.html?page=2

Clean Up the Registry
The registry is a database in both Windows Vista and XP that stores information about your hardware, software preferences and user profiles. Whenever you change something in Windows, it is logged in the registry. But when software is deleted or hardware is upgraded, the registry isn’t always updated properly, so it can end up full of outdated, useless entries. Unlike the Msconfig utility and BIOS, casual deletions from the registry can cause irreversible damage, so it is no place for an inexperienced computer user to go tinkering on his own. But a good software solution can help clean it out for you. Free programs such as CCleaner and Glary Utilities, as well as more fully featured pay software such as System Mechanic ($50), are available for download online and will scrub the registry for “keys” left over from old applications no longer resident on your machine. These may be delaying boot time by causing the computer to scan for nonexistent programs during startup. A clean registry makes the whole process more efficient.

How much time you’ll gain overall depends entirely on how messed up your computer was in the first place. Cleaning out all of the digital clutter still won’t make your computer instant-on, but it should make the wait more bearable.


Or the fact there is no "index file", when separate index files haven't
been required with databases since probably 1985 (when your experience I
think peaked)?

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-0384/nsslapd-mode-5dsconf?a=view

nsslapd-mode(5dsconf)

NAME | Description | Attributes | See Also
NAME

nsslapd-mode – database index file permissions

Description

Specifies the permissions used for newly created index files.


GUFFAW!!

"Hee-haw" seems more appropriate for you to use, jackass! :D

You quote from self-serving product ads to make your point? I write from understanding Win internals and the architecture/startup processes.


Steve

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