Registry Defrag

I've been using Auslogics defragger to defrag my hard drive with great results. I noticed that they also have a registry defragger and there are others listed in MG downloads area.

Should I regularly be defragging my registry or should I leave it alone? These programs claim to speed up your system.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

NTREGOPT is another tool for optimizing the registry. I have it installed and use it but not very often, since frequent use seems unnecessary.

 

Regular hard drive maintenance is highly recommended: removing junk files, temp files, unneeded cookies, and regular drive defragging is a good idea too. As for registry maintenance, the above suggestions are pretty much right on. Occasionally run CCleaner or Wise Reg Cleaner to clean out the 'dead wood' from the registry, and then run an optimzer on reg once in a while too. NTREGOPT is good; I use it once a month or month and a half. I also run Dial-A-Fix 2 or 3 times monthly just to keep my DLL files happy
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All these suggestions are good.
But
How could a person save a program such as a defragger to a CD so that the program could be used on an old laptop that will never go on line?
Whenever I try to save a repair program to a CD or floppy - it does not work on the laptop. Any suggestions - besides the obvious one: get on line somehow?

 

Thank you. I was able to get a good copy on CD, but the laptop refuses to access it. Something I'll have to learn more about. Thanks again

 

Halo, I took your advice and cleaned up with CCleaner, then ran the registry defragger. No problems whatsoever. I think i will continue to defrag my hard drive regularly and defrag the registry once in awhile.

Thanks to everyone who responded with the great advice.

 

What a great and novel idea! These miracle machines have no end of surprises.
What I am trying to do is resusitate an old compaq armada 7770 DMT - and then have it join the little wireless network that I set up in the attic(The attic is well supplied with good insulation). So far I have windows 98 installed and I will try to get Windows internet explorer 5.5 or 6 installed, so tthat my PCMIA card will work. Lots of fun.
thank you

 

If you have Win98, then try the freeware defragger Diskeeper Lite http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1207
It's perhaps the best free defragger around.

I've read somewhere (so take it FWIW) that some of the newer defraggers don't play so well with Win versions older than XP.

 

Thank you - Ijust downloaded Diskeeper.