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makinero:
Registry Compact


Compacting the registry on SSD? Hm ?

11% fragmented (General)

Registry\User
High Fragmentation: 48% and 24 %

REGISTRY\MACHINE 10% and 12% and 14 %

etc.

Boggin:
For Win 7 TRIM looks after a SSD and is auto enabled, but the SATA ports need to be set to AHCI in the BIOS for this to happen.

To then ensure TRIM is enabled, run a cmd prompt as an admin and enter -

fsutil behaviour set DisableDeleteNotify 0

Or you could query its status with this cmd fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify and that will return a 0 if enabled and a 1 if not.

You will need to disable Defragmenter and I think I once read something about Hibernate needing to be disabled as well, but can't confirm that.

However, if you don't use Hibernate then you can turn it off with this elevated cmd which will also free up about 6GB or more on your HDD.

powercfg -h off

makinero:
 talking about defragmenting the registry C:\Windows\regedit.exe in the SSD
I'm not talking about the fragmentation of the SSD !

Boggin:
You don't defrag SSDs - TRIM tidies those up.

If you want to defrag the registry then use the free Winmend Registry Defrag program.

http://www.winmend.com/registry-defrag/

Willy2:
One can certainly reduce the size of the registry (files). I take the following steps:

- Run MRUblaster. It removes all/A LOT OF the MRU (Most Recently Used) info/lists from the registry.
http://www.brightfort.com/mrublaster.html
- Then run Eusing's registry cleaner. Better than CCleaner.
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm
- Then run Eusing's registry defragmentation program.
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_defrag/registry_defrag.htm
And then one MUST restart one's system.

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