Laura wrote wrote:

>Someone suggested the following action to  aautomatically optimize my hard
>drive but I don't know how to  open/find RegEdit.<>


If you don't know how to open Regedit, you won't know how to create the new 
entry, so best leave it alone.  This hack won't optimize your hard 
drive.   It may at best "optimize" the appearance of XP, but that depends 
what you mean by "optimize". This could mean appearance (ie all the eye 
candy that robs performance) or performance ( which robs you of all the 
nice eye candy).  Some people prefer performance, some prefer appearance. 
Most steer a middle course. You can make all these performance settings 
manually without going into the registry, which is much safer than fooling 
around in the registry, the "brains" of the system. (Control 
Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Settings). Also Desktop 
Properties/Appearance/Advanced/Item.

The setting you propose is not a default setting as far as I can see, and 
is unlikely to do very much good.

If you still wish to proceed----and there's no reason why not if you are 
adventurously inclined-----then you must first make a backup of the 
registry, or at least the portion you intend to change. Then, if you mess 
up, at least you can restore the registry. The proposed change would not be 
fatal.

I'm not familiar with this registry edit, so can't predict precisely what 
it may do without further research.

Don Penlington






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