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Originally Posted by Alkison Wow, okay I never knew that. It's weird though, it definitely seems to help sometimes. |
In what way?
If you are willing to experiment, try benchmarking your registry access speed (at times where the same amount of load would be on it, preferably with no other programs running).
You can benchmark your registry access speed to compare it at different times, or after a "defrag" ("compaction") to see if any real improvement in access speed occurred. The output of
regbench HKLM -auto looks like this:
Benchmarking registry root:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE [HKLM] hKey: 0x80000002
/
== Keys in hive : 359169
== Enumeration time : 135625 ms (135.63 secs)
== Total accesses : 100000
== Total access time : 8609
== Time per access : 0.086090 ms
== Keys per second : 11615.75
== Total bytes read : 10000046
== Time to read all : 10157 ms
== Time per byte : 0.001010 ms per byte
== Bytes per second : 990099.00