Am running Vista Premium. Jv16's bloat factor is showing 72/100. The tip says that a well managed registry should be down around 40-60.


How does one reduce the bloat if the Registry Cleaner in Aggressive Mode finds nothing to clean?

The only thing I can think of is to try the Registry Compactor.


I have everything set in RegCleaner except ActiveX/COM/DCOM/OLE/DDE Scan and I now get nothing. Plus I just compacted my reg and I get 68 for my Bloat Factor. lol

Bloat factor … ???


My daughter's desktop with 4 active users has a Registry Information "bloat factor" of 69/100 and a Registry Cleaner "grand total" of 183 keys and 77 entries.


My laptop with 1 active user has a Registry Information "bloat factor" of 62/100 and a Registry Cleaner "grand total" of 0 keys and 0 entries.


I think at this point in its development, the algorithm for "bloat factor" does not correlate very well with the Registry Cleaner engine … : :

Thanks for the replies. I've compacted and run two other registry cleaners (which found nothing); therefore, I think I'll just take 2 GasX and hope the bloat subsides. :

The bloat factor depends on many things, for example which operating system do you have. For example, the registry of Vista is by default more bloated that the one of Windows 2000.


But you can reduce the bloatness simply by using the Software Manager to remove traces of software you no longer use and by using other tools of the jv16 PT, such as Registry Cleaner.


However, running the Registry Compactor doesn't affect the bloat factor at all. The Registry Compactor reduces the size needed to store the registry data. The bloat factor analyzes the contents of the registry, not the size of the files required to store the registry.


Like if the registry was a bottle of juice. The Registry Compactor can usually squeeze the bottle a bit smaller in a way all the juice still stays in. But the bloat indicator doesn't look at the bottle at all, only how much juice it contains. Hmmmm... I wonder if this example made the issue more clear or less

I'm running Vista Home Premium, and I have hardly anything installed so far, but I get a 68 on the "Bloat" scale. lol Calling it "Bloat" gives it a negative connotation and causes users to wanna "fix" it, when there's nothing to really fix.


Maybe it shouldn't be called "Bloat" if it's just a matter of the size. Perhaps "Relative Size" would be more useful. There could be a scale such as this above or below the bar. (I have no idea how big the registries for the different Win versions average out to be, so this is just an example. )


|----Win 95----|

|------Win 98------|

|--------Win 2000/NT--------|

|---------Win XP----------------|

|----------------Win Vista-------------------|

Perhaps it would be useful if the pgm would display registry keys, etc., that it is calling "bloat" for its calculation. That way a user could review the keys and determine (if possible) whether they are bloat or valid/required keys. Of course, that would lead to a request for an "ignore" list so that the user could instruct jv16 that verified keys are not bloat...for the next run of bloat calculation.

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"The bloat factor depends on many things, for example which operating system do you have. For example, the registry of Vista is by default more bloated that the one of Windows 2000." --JV16 Developer


If this is the case, then why have a "bloat factor" at all? It only seems to be causing people distress as they wonder why in the heck their computer is somehow not up to par. I have Windows XP running very few programs, and all traces of old programs removed. Yet even after running the Registry Cleaner in aggressive mode, I get a bloat factor of 67/100.


Unless the JV16 program can do something about the bloat factor, I'd advise eliminating the bloat indicator altogether.


John

12 days later

I agree with John J. Pucco. It seems that the bloat factor is a gross misnomer. If Registry Cleaner is not able to reduce the bloat factor down to the preferred 40 (or so), then either Registry Cleaner is not doing it's job or the whole concept is phoney.


I'm sure that there is still a lot of junk left over from software I've tried and deleted because it was not worth having. To me, however, this is the sort of junk a registry clener should be able to ferret out and delete.


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Old Keith