Registry scan takes hours

rendez2k

Since upgrading to the new 2006 version, registry cleaning takes hours, and in fact, I've yet to complete one! It starts well, with 10 threads open until its near the end then slows down to 2 threads, then it just chugs along - I've left it for 2 hours and its still not complete although its showing over 3500 problems/entries! I've tried it in both normal and aggressive. Any ideas?

figaro331

Hi, All !

Yes, I'm agree with you regarding RegCleaner in new jv16_2006.

Besides it talkes long hours to scan registry and never end since it exceeds whole virtual memory size and CPU time despite checking option to use CPU as low as possible.

I don't know what to do - old version RegCleaner works fine with the system when i've completely uninstall new version and installed old one.

Best regards, figaro

tullik

Slow Registry Cleaner?

What operating system? What sort of computer?

Quick select: Normal takes 30 seconds on my notebook, 20 seconds on my desktop. That is with very few error lines.

If you have 3000 plus errors it will take a lot longer, but two plus hours seems unreasonable.

Have you tried just doing one Hkey box at a time?

rendez2k

My PC is 3.2 P4 with Win XP SP2 - will try the one key at a time...

tullik

You could also see how long Registry Information tool runs on your PC.

The screenshot below ran on my XP Pro desktop in 35 seconds. The numbers at least provide a raw basis for comparison of the "data" size in your registry.

figaro331

tullik wrote
Slow Registry Cleaner?

What operating system? What sort of computer?

Quick select: Normal takes 30 seconds on my notebook, 20 seconds on my desktop. That is with very few error lines.

If you have 3000 plus errors it will take a lot longer, but two plus hours seems unreasonable.

Have you tried just doing one Hkey box at a time?

Hi, All!

I'm using 1GB RAM, CPU 3.06 GHZ, Asus P4PE motherboard and Win XP Pro, of course, and all other good stuff. So my system is fast enough to handle application like jv16.

I'm just trying to find out what causes the system to run out of virtual memory because jv16 RegCleaner.

Please, help.

tullik

My computer is similar to yours. My paging file size (virtual memory) is set at 1524 MB on the boot volume (windows handles the specification -- I did nothing). It shows as a range: 1524 initial, 3048 maximum. I have had no problems running out of virtual memory during testing of 10 or 11 versions of PT 2006.

Registry Cleaner may read the File Cache into VM. If you have a large File Cache, that could be impacting you. My File Cache is 1611KB. RC also must hold the error list in VM, so if there is a large list ... another impact. That is why running fewer scan options at a time may help.

Perhaps your VM is a different size? ...

VM size can be configured ...

My Computer...Properties...Advanced...Performance.Settings...Advanced...Virtual Memory.Change ... but I have not had to do anything with it.

siliconman01

If you have multiple disks, you can limit the File Cache to only the C drive by manually modifying Filecache.dat in the Settings folder found at C:\Program Files\jv16 PowerTools\Settings. Use Notepad to open the file named Filecache.dat. Set other disks to False and save the settings.

MaxAge=15

Created=38807.6875857176

LastAsked=38807.6875502662

c=True

d=False

h=False

i=False

Then force a new file cache via jv16's maintenance menu. Flush cache, shut down and restart jv16.

My filecache of only the C drive is 372 kbytes.

tullik

siliconman01 wrote
If you have multiple disks, you can limit the File Cache to only the C drive by manually modifying Filecache.dat in the Settings folder found at C:\Program Files\jv16 PowerTools\Settings. ...

Thanks! I was wondering if there was a way to do that. I don't want Registry Cleaner "fixing" paths to point to other drives.

Note: my FileCache went from 1611KB to 558KB -- 1 MB less impact on memory and speedier lookups in RC.

siliconman01

Thanks! I was wondering if there was a way to do that. I don't want Registry Cleaner "fixing" paths to point to other drives.

Same here.

Perhaps you can assist in convincing jv16 that this needs to be a selectable setting for filecaching. I've requested it in the last three versions to no avail. :(

tullik

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krese1

I'm also having the same problem with the Registry Cleaner on my Thinkpad T41 (P1.7m - 2GB RAM - XP Pro SP2).

Ran each 'HKEY' individually and on my system 'User Scan' & 'Current User Scan' didn't complete. I cancelled after 90 minutes. All the other 'HKEY's' ran OK

I also ran Registry Information for 90 minutes before I cancelled. After the first 1 - 2 minutes only the 'Hkey_User & Hkey_Current_ User' counters were increasing (63+ million entries for each) and my total registry size was 700mb (my registry is not that big!!!). Couldn't figure out how to include screenshots

toucher

Just thought I would throw in that I have run the new Registry Cleaner on two machine, a Dual Core AMD 4400 with XP SP2, 2 GB of RAM and it took just over 20 seconds with aggresive scan.

On my laptop system with Intel Mobel 1.8 Ghz, 2 GB of RAM and running XP SP2, the aggresive scan took 79 seconds. (much faster then the 2005 and some the Beta's I tried)

tullik

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krese1

Tullik

I ran the Regedit find and it took 45 seconds.

Also PowerTools 1.4.x & 2005 Registry Cleaner runs fine.

NOTE: I exported my entire registry - output file 80mb

tullik

Registry scan takes hours

krese1 wrote
... I ran the Regedit find and it took 45 seconds.

Also PowerTools 1.4.x & 2005 Registry Cleaner runs fine.

Great -- clearly a PT 2006 problem.

krese1 wrote
NOTE: I exported my entire registry - output file 80mb

My desktop: 44MB

My notebook: 76MB

Let's see what Registry Finder does ...

1. Run Registry Finder

-- Search method...Normal

-- Search words: lastkey and environment

-- Options: check only: HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Analyze key names, and Analyze value names

-- took 2 seconds on my desktop

2. Repeat 1 with:

-- Options: check only: HKEY_USERS, Analyze key names, and Analyze value names

-- took 1 second on my desktop

krese1

tullik wrote

Let's see what Registry Finder does ...

1. Run Registry Finder

-- Search method...Normal

-- Search words: lastkey and environment

-- Options: check only: HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Analyze key names, and Analyze value names

-- took 2 seconds on my desktop

My Laptop = 4 seconds / 26 entries

tullik wrote

2. Repeat 1 with:

-- Options: check only: HKEY_USERS, Analyze key names, and Analyze value names

-- took 1 second on my desktop

My laptop = 2 seconds / 12 entries

tullik

Registry scan takes hours

So Registry Finder is OK ...

krese1,

Want to try the following?

Click Registry Cleaner, uncheck all Options except Hkey_current_user, then Start RC with only one of the lower scans checked. Repeat until all the lower scans are done. On my desktop, the MRU scan took less than 5 seconds. all the others were about 1 second each.

Repeat above for Hkey_Users. Times about the same on my desktop as for Current User.

Note: The heads-up to jv16 is no longer in my Outbox.

tullik

Registry scan takes hours

krese1,

Come to think of it the loop might be triggered by some esoteric value (data). For example an unusual table or binary type entry or a really long string or ... who knows.

Would you repeat this http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=4480#4480 with Analyze value data also checked? Took less than five seconds on my desktop.

krese1

tullik wrote

Come to think of it the loop might be triggered by some esoteric value (data). For example an unusual table or binary type entry or a really long string or ... who knows.

Would you repeat this http://www.macecraft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=4480#4480 with Analyze value data also checked? Took less than five seconds on my desktop.

Each took about 5 seconds on my laptop

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