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[Alan_B]

After using NTREGOPT to optimise the registry, and the system reboots, what looks like 40 MBytes of old registry backup/temp files are created in 7 different folders on Windows XP Home edition SP3

The attached file lists each redundant item.
 RegOptFIX_C_TO_ZAP.TXT   2.82K   4 downloads

The attached *.txt file can be renamed as *.BAT.
 RegOptFIX.txt   2.1K   3 downloads

When RegOptFIX.Bat is run it creates 3 LOG FILES :-
RegOptFIX_C_TO_ZAP.LOG, showing temp/backup stuff deemed worthy of zapping;
RegOptFIX_C_SUM.LOG, showing the entire contents of the 7 folders to show context and confirm later version of the "zap" stuff";
RegOptFIX_C_VALID_.LOG, the contents of the 7 folders that are considered valid, i.e. excluding the zap stuff.
After it has run and created the 3 lists, it offers the choice of whether or not to delete the junk.

After NTREGOPT reboots, the backup stuff exists and does not seem to go away until I zap them.
I leave the backup stuff for a day, and if everything is fine on the next reboot then I zapp the junk.

NB I have never had a reboot problem,
and if I did I expect to fully recover by restoring the previous ERUNT registry backup.
I am pretty sure that the registry backup stuff made by XP will be almost useless,
I am sure that there would be permisions and Access Control List aggravations to overcome before I could over-write the latest registry files with the "backups".

Regards
Alan

[Andavari]

I can confirm that CCleaner is unable to fully deal with ERUNT restorations, and NTREGOPT backups - even after making a winapp2.ini entry for them it still horrible misses those .bak's, etc.