defrag registy what to use

what is the best user freindly s/ware for this . i use regsupreme for cleaning but i need something to defrag.

 

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml
PageDefrag.. not sure if its on MG but ill have a look
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=603
got it

 

Bern, just in case you're waiting to see whether somebody else makes any other suggestions, ... fuggeddaboudit.

Goldy's suggestion is it. Easy, excellent, runs on next boot. Default when you open it is Do Nothing, so you have to click the "Defrag at next boot" button to kickstart it.

If you often use other things that run at next boot (like DelLater or any index.dat deleter or chkdsk /f), it might be a good idea to just run Sys Defrag alone, so it can do the job on all of the hives without any possibility of conflict with any other pre-Windows process. (I'm not sure about that being necessary, or even whether any conflict is possible, but it can't hurt to keep the task list simple before Windows launches.)

 

thanks i was waiting to see if anyone else had some suggestions . so i will go ahead with what goldfish says.

 

I would run http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1267.html first, NTREGOPT then pagedefrag. 2 different types of defrag. Regsupreme does internal allready? Erunt nice package anyway.

 

Good call! never noticed the registry optimizer in Erunt. Reduced me by 13%. not bad eh?

 

Yeah, I use ERUNT before every run of RegSupreme, then clean the reg thoroughly, then NTREGOPT and reboot to activate the clean, compressed reg. Then I check with SysDefrag, cuz for some reason the REGOPT process sometimes splits either SOFTWARE or SYSTEM or both.

(Not that I think that's anything bad, it just happens that the compression sometimes has a little fragmenting effect.)

IF REGOPT has split one or more of the reg hives, I set it to Defrag at next boot and don't give it another thought. My next boot will be within 24 hours, and then I'll have the reg clean, compact, and in a single block.

I like knowing it's that way.

And the pre-RegSupreme reg can sit in ERDNT as a fallback until I next run ERUNT.

 

i ran erunt after i had already run pagedefrag and regsupreme and it reduced me by 5% . great stuff i am impressed !!

 

We know exactly what you mean, bern, but just so no readers of the thread are confused,...

It's RegOpt that compacts it and reduces it. ERUNT makes a backup copy of it. The NTRegOpt program is included in the ERUNT download, but runs as a separate and independent utility.