"Bill in Co." wrote in message
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| MEB wrote:
| "BAP" wrote in message
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| The below should be used only AFTER you have carefully cleaned your
| registry and found no errors, or errors which might be corrected BY
using
| this technique, as final cleanup/compaction. The present registry is too
| large and with apparently too many invalid entries for accurate usage.
If
| it
| were not so, then this might be a good way to do "house cleaning".
| Moreover, it sometimes removes entries from the registry by "mistake"
| [doesn't recognize them properly and removes them] so this technique
also
| needs to be used with caution.
|
| Wait a minute, MEB. Are you saying that using "scanreg /fix /opt" has
| *actually* removed some entries by mistake? Have you actually seen
that
| happen? If so, can you be more specific (if you happen to recall) what
it
| was, for example?
|

If I remember correctly, and I admit to NOT having done this recently, one
issue that pops into mind [however accurate] revolve around Adobe products
and/or was it Macromedia; [other from decaying memory] with a couple of
programs designed within the last four or so years designed for both XP and
Win98, e.g., the hives are allowed more information within them than the
registry. The entries were apparently too large for the recommended registry
size and either removed or shortened, or otherwise not recognized/handled
correctly. After using the scanreg /fix and /opt the programs errored.
After all, that is apparently part of what is checked during the /fix
usage, invalid entries. What does scanreg apparently check against for
"invalid",, Microsoft recommendations and known entries.
This was, if I remember correctly, also an issue and even more severe, with
the even older regedit fix/compact routine which used to be recommended,
though somewhat corrected using scanreg.

For whatever the reasoning, I stopped using that routine due to errors
caused by the routine. Hence, began searching for and testing of other
programs to [again] handle those issues with relative safety. Back to manual
editing, or tools which showed potential issues from which to work.

To me, it is a "last ditch, if all else fails", way to achieve a
potentially stable registry, and that's about what its worth.

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|
| Once you've cleaned up things with CCleaner as best you
| can, you can use a Microsoft trick to mildly optimize the registry:
|
| a) Restart in DOS mode (the prompt doesn't matter)
|
| b) Enter: smartdrv
| (optional, for speed)
|
| c) Then enter: scanreg /fix /opt
|
| ****
|
| MEB, thank you again, for your work!
|
| Well, we're not done yet... and others have already helped and will be
| helping... none of us need thanks, we like helping others if we can,
| though
| its always appreciated...
|
|