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From: Gerry on 12 Dec 2009 11:26
It is is described as a file in Windows Explorer! Look at the
Properties!


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db wrote:
> that folder you mentioned is not a
> file.
>
>
>
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>>
>>
>
> "Jeff" <Jeff(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:601F1D96-47B6-4D3D-BB22-2040D64E6595(a)microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> My windows/system32/config/system file is huge -- the order of
>> 200mb. This seems a bit unusual, and I did get some popups on
>> startup that there is not
>> enough room for the registry. I cleared out the paging file and
>> reallocated
>> 1.5*2gb (the size of my memory). Anyway, what can I do about this
>> file to make it "normal" again?
>>
>> I will state that I am after a repair install because something
>> happened to
>> my system and I needed to repair. Now things are indeed working alot
>> better,
>> but there is still this issue, and I guess this is why my system
>> works slowly
>> at times and after awhile the DCPS take up alot of the cpu time.
>>
>> Is there something I can do, or am I doomed to format and make a new
>> install?
>>
>> Thanks.

From: Bruce Chambers on 12 Dec 2009 12:22
db wrote:
> that folder you mentioned is not a
> file.
>
>


Yes, of course it's a file, an essential part of the registry. (How
can you, in good conscience, recommend the use of registry cleaners,
when you clearly don't even know the very most fundamental thing about it?)


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