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RE: Bob Scott's Defrag Utility



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carroll Slemaker [mailto:cslemaker1@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:50 PM
> To: Peter Hoon; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Bob Scott's Defrag Utility
>
>
> Peter -
>
> How effective is the operation which rids the registry of
> orphaned entries?
> I have used several registry "cleaners" including RegClean and
> EasyUninstall
> (the latter also is by Ontrack) and found none of them very effective.  In
> the end I went through the registry manually, removing all entries which
> referenced software which I knew no longer existed.
> Unfortunately, not all
> registry entries are easily identifiable as to the program which put them
> there or which depend upon them.  Comments/recommendations?
>
> Regards,
> Carroll Slemaker
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Hoon" <phoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:49 PM
> Subject: RE: Bob Scott's Defrag Utility
>
> ...
>
> > I recommend Ontrack.com fixit utilities V 3.0.  I run win2k Pro
> and ts2k,
> > NTFS file system. On at least one occasion, the new and latest V 3.0
> Ontrack
> > disk defragger caught and corrected a file problem that the Microsoft
> > defragger (which came with win2k pro) did not catch and correct.
>  ...
>
> > There are other great features on fixit utilities by ontrack
> that keep my
> > system and Trade Station 2000i humming with virtually no problems.  I do
> the
> > following maintenance with Fix it every weekend:
> >
> > -Boot, registry, and paging file degrag
> >
> > -Clean out any orphaned registry entries.
> >
> > -Check to see if all files are readable
>
>