11/7/2023 0 Comments Wise registry cleaner major geek![]() ![]() Emptying the sandbox can get totally rid of the installed product, without any deletes done in the real registry. This is because Sandboxie will do all registry updates in its own shadow registry and not inside the Windows registry. If one is in the habit of installing and uninstalling many products, using a product such as Sandboxie will prevent registry updates when the product is installed in a sandbox. In effect, defragmenting the registry is much more useful than cleaning it. A defragmenter will in this case recover that space and reduce the size of the registry. When there are many such deleted entries, we say that the registry is fragmented. ![]() BUT keep in mind that accessing the registry is done by Windows for many operations, for example launching a program, but is not that important once the program is launched (except maybe for regedit). ![]() These deleted entries will slow-down all registry accesses. The main reason for slow-down is the fact that deleted entries are only flagged as deleted and are left in the registry database file. The reason the registry slows down, is not principally because of left-over orphan entries, although it doesn't hurt to get rid of them using a registry cleaner. ![]() The last time I uninstalled, for example, an Adobe product I counted more than 10,000 deletes in the registry(!), which is really abusing it. Registry bloat and slow-down are not a myth, but it would take quite an abnormal usage of the computer for it to happen, for example installing and uninstalling every GOTD product every day for a year or two. There is an "Unselect All" so I can still do a few at a time that way. Surely this will take more than few minutes. I must rescan and review all 3621 errors. Sadly my short list of 400 errors is taken away. That is not what I want, so I click "OK" instead of "Cancel" to cancel my scan and indeed the scan is cancelled by clicking "OK". I have been using PC's for almost 30 years so I use this vast storehouse of experience to guess that clicking "Cancel" will cancel my cancel request and will in fact continue the scan. It would be reasonable to think that by clicking "OK" I would be accepting the recommendation in the dialog box - that is to compete the scan.ĭoes "OK" complete the scan, stop the scan or cancel the scan?ĭoes "Cancel" cancel the scan, or cancel this dialog and complete the scan? I see the message in front of my eyes "it is highly recommended to complete the scan. But does "OK" confirm that I still want to cancel the scan, or does "Cancel" confirm that I still want to cancel the scan? Is there a difference between cancel and stop? I just asked it to cancel the scan. Do you still want to stop the scan?" and there are two buttons "OK" and "Cancel". It will only take few minutes, it is highly recommended to complete the scan. If I do this every so often, I can eventually review all the errors in bite-sized sized tasks". So I think to myself "if I hit the cancel button it might allow me to review just these 400 entries. There are two buttons visible "fix errors" and "cancel scan". Started scanning and there are 400 errors and rising. I had a look, closed it, and came back later. I decided to install this anyway and have a look. I know all about the dangers of messing with the registry. ![]()
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