Defrag Registry on XP x64.

[johnhc]

I am new to My Defrag but have read the manual, web site and lots in these forums.  I have found many references to using PageDefrag (Sysinternals) for defragging the Registry but this is for 32 bit Windows only.  I have found some who think defragging the Registry is a total waste of time.  I have found two free programs that will work on an x64 system.  I have DLed, installed  and run the Free Registry Defrag (http://www.registry-clean.net/free-registry-defrag.htm) on my VM (VMware Server).  I also found RegDefrag (http://www.regdefrag.com/) but have not tested it.  Does anyone here have experience with either of these or others and/or feel defragging (and compacting) the Registry is worthy of the effort?  Thanks for any comments.  Enjoy, John.

EDIT: I DLed RegDefrag, installed and ran it on my VM.  Both seem to do what they purport to do and my VM still boots.  Hard to tell if everything is OK.

[TheAnonymous]

MyDefrag is able to touch the compressed registry data located on the disk in \Windows\System32\Config, they are highly compressed and are unload into memory at boot-up. These specific files are touched in the MyDefrag optimization process.

The only method of registry "defragmenting" that is beneficial is by compacting the free-space inside and between the hives, hence making the registry smaller, using a program like NTREGOPT (supports x64 and Vista/7).

Anything else (including NTREGOPT in some cases) isn't really a beneficial process, at all.

[johnhc]

TheAnonymous, thanks for your reply.  I will keep NTREGOPT in mind if I get convinced to even attempt this.  Thanks, John.