Hey, Tom!

I found that the best way to keep the registry clean is to get a couple of good apps that help (more crap?).

I find it best to run a good uninstaller like Norton CleanSweep (or whatever your religious preference might be).

I also would not operate without a little shareware/freeware app called InControl from PC Mag (check any of the popular download sites for it - if you can't locate it let me know and I'll get you a copy). What it does is simply generate a report/file of everything that changes when you install an app. Or, for what it's worth, you can simply run it as a checkpoint report to see what changes while running certain processes or apps on your PC. It will create a differences report for your hard drive and your registry. It's just amazing the junk that some apps throw into your registry.

Gary

Looks like a familiar crowd.

I have a feeling this will be a good group to follow. As one of the
old guys of the group with nothing but a PII, 300Mhz, single
processor, waste basket full of chips, I suspect that I will be
reading and asking a lot from those of you who can try things 10x as
fast - and I don't care if it's 10x optical or digital ;>)

I will report that IP generally runs just fine on my wimpy old box -
which BTW runs Windows ME. It does require patience when running any
of the adaptive processes on star-field images, although planets
aren't bad at all. At any rate, we geezers know that patience
becomes easier every year.

Also, contrary to what you might have heard, Mike, (and anybody else
who's heard it), Windows ME does a very nice job on image
processing. It probably helps that I have 384 MB of RAM, but I've
found it to be solid and reliable. But then, of course, I found it
95 to be solid and reliable too (still run that on my proxy server).
I often count in weeks between reboots. Personally, I think the
operator is what makes the difference - but that's just MHO.
Actually, I find that keeping the registry clean, hard drive clean
and organized, and eliminating unnecesary crap that most apps install
can make all the difference in the world.

I do also run an NT 4.0 partition (dual boot), and I'm getting ready
to upgrade that to XP since NT can't read my FAT32 data partitions.
I'll be happy to report the difference once I'm done

At any rate, I look forward to the interaction.

Gary Tollefson

Hola, Herr Gary... :D

--- In ImagesPlus@y..., "gvtoll" <gvtoll@a...> wrote:

Looks like a familiar crowd.

I am not!

Actually, I find that keeping the registry clean, hard drive clean
and organized, and

******eliminating unnecesary crap that most apps install ***********

That's the key phrase! The problem is, how to identify it!?!?

I've pretty much bastardized my Win98SE registry trying to "keep it
clean"..you shouldn't stick bubble gum on the mobo, should you?

TD