From: Gary Britt 

sounds like your XP registries are being saved in version 5 (binary) format
which are about double the size of ASCII format.  Either that or the XP
registries are just a lot bigger.  Many viewers will show version 5 format
registries from XP as though they were really ascii files, and this can
fool someone into thinking they are really ascii files when they aren't. 
View them with a hex editor or check the top of the file to see if version
5 or version 4 (ascii) format is specified at the top of the file.

Gary

Frank Haber wrote:
> I seem to recall that early versions of this tool did toxic things to
> Win 2k, but I was game to try again, since one 2000WS desktop and one
> laptop were taking forever to shut down, with many 'unload' errmsgs and
> failure to save client roam profiles on the laptop.  I gritted my teeth,
> and tried the tool at
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B
570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
>
>
> (validation required - grrrrrr).
>
> Results were sensational.  Shutdown time was reduced by 2/3, and
> profiles seem to be getting saved.
>
> In the process, I noticed that something since SP4 has healed my SFC
> /runnow problem.  SFC used to erroneously request the distro disk.  Now
> it's a good boy, and properly fills ...\dllcache with all the right
> versions.  Stuff starts faster, too.  Rollup pack?  Who knows.  I put it
> down to clean living.
>
> (Curiosity question:  My Win2k registries are running about 55MB saved
> (ASCII, regedit save of everything).  My main XP Pro machines are 110
> and 117MB saved the same way.  Should this scare me?  I hate regcleaners
> in general, but do use ccleaner occasionally.  Shall we compare
> registries, or would people talk?)

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