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Re: Defragmenting the registry

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On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Jamie wrote:
>> 
>> Have anyone tried to defragment (or compact) the registry at run time?
>> 
>> I have searched the net, but found nothing but programmes doing this.
>> An example in any language would be useful.

>
> Playing with the registry is a dangerous game!
>
> What I have seen done is the reading and writing of the
> complete registry. Much like the exporting and importing
> of the registry.. However, it is a dangerous operation when
> something goes wrong in the middle of a registry image
> change.

There are two ways I can see doing it:

1. writing a registry attaching driver that keeps track of changes 
happenning while you do the read/copy of the registry

or 2. Find the format of the registry and do it offline, such as booted 
from a BartPE disk.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/RegistryDumper.aspx

Erick

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Defragmenting the registry Sonnich Jensen <sonnichjensen@gmail.com> - 2011-12-29 10:13 -0800
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    Re: Defragmenting the registry Erick Engelke <erick@uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-12-29 20:49 -0500

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