Erunt for NT/2K/XP

[THESNOWMAN GUY]

ERUNT: The Emergency Recovery Utility NT will help you Backup, restore and optimize your NT/2000/XP registry.

Features:
- Backup the Windows NT/2000/XP registry to a folder of your choice.
- System and current user registries selectable.
- Command-line switches for automated use of ERUNT
- Restore the registry in Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP and MS-DOS (all-in-one restore program)
- All programs in this package are completely localizable.

Also included in this package is NTREGOPT; a program for optimizing the registry


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USE AT OWN RISK USE AT OWN RISK USE AT OWN RISK


whew....that should tell everyone...USE AT OWN RISK

[bch]

Have used NTRegOpt on it's own quite a number of times on XP Home and its one of my favourite programmes. It does the job with no frills. The only thing I make a point of doing is closing down all unnecessary programmes beforehand and then, when it asks me if I want to reboot, I do it immediately. (My understanding is that, if you don't, anything subsequently written to the registry will not be saved).

Also, it is the only free optimiser that I could find. There are other products classed as registry defragmenters/optimisers, for which you have to pay, but Diskeeper or PerfectDisk will defragment the registry files so all you need is an optimiser.

Have a look at Sysinternals PageDefrag. I've never used it as a boot time defrag tool but, by opening the programme, you can quickly tell whether or not the registry is fragmented. Its in the Performance Tools section at http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml

Glad you brought this programme up.

[TheSnowMan Guy]

BCH


Much thanks for the contribution......perhaps others will benefit....however, I don't use XP..an just posted the above product as a gesture of help to XP users........real decent freeware products are difficult to locate these days.......

Have been "re-doing" an old operating system.....an nearly completed......still looking around for products an came over erunt..thought someone may find it useful........

Have A pleasent evening

[bch]

TheSnowMan Guy.

Here is my "tried and tested" freeware contribution to your rejuvinated operating system. Cacheman 5.50. I don't use it as memory optimiser on XP but you can set it up to "hide to tray icon" at start up. The tray icon appears as a number, ie. the amount of free ram you have available. (I also used it to increase the icon cache so that now, when I open a folder full of icons, they appear instantly rather than having to watch them load up). http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=2

Good luck and best wishes.