huge Ntuser.dat file

[mloli]

:mad: Hi folks!!
I'm an italian Solidesigner 11.60 user.
I have a problem my ntuser.dat file become hudge when I use SD and when it's become a lots of megs my pc become very slow.:mad:
The solution that I find is to create a new user but it reset all my sd toolbars in sd.:mad:

Some of you had the same problem?
How do you resolve it?

Thanks a lot.
Bye

Marco

[clausb]

See http://cocreateusers.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3917&highlight=registry for a related issue and a recommendation about what to do in such a case. http://bobpm.www5.50megs.com/page6-A.html also has a potential solution.

OSDM 2004 and later no longer rely on the registry.

Hope this helps,

Claus

[mloli]

thanks a lot claus.
I try to do all the operations described on monday.

Bye happy week-end.

[Thom Ivancso]

Hello Claus,

Looks like Bob Mayrand's site http://bobpm.www5.50megs.com/page6-A.html is not fully up and running a lot of the information pretaining to SolidDesigner is not available. Can you check on this to see that it is true and not just something I am seeing.


Cheers
Thom

[clausb]

Thom,

you are right, Bob seems to have re-arranged stuff on his site, so some links are stale. However, the page I mentioned is up and contains notes on what he did to get around the registry issue.

Running ResetUISettings.bat should usually also do the trick.

Claus

[mloli]

Thanks, how can I save my toolbars, before reset.
thanks

[clausb]

If I remember correctly, you can export your customizations into data files using Edit/UI Settings/Customizations/Export Customizations.

Claus

[mloli]

I used the command but annotation toolbars didn't reset.
Why?

I used sd.exe -r (sdversion).

Now SD start quickly, but annotation still with a slow startup.

[clausb]

So at least we're making some progress.

I would have used ResetUISettings.bat simply because it avoids typos with the version name. But I guess since there was a noticeable effect on OSDM startup, this is not a problem in this case.

How long does it take now to start Annotation?

To find out more about the startup issue, start OSDM with the "-v" option in the command line. (Modify the shortcut in Start/Programs for this.) This will open a console window during startup which reveals more details about what is going on during startup. For instance, it will tell you which sub-modules are being initialized. Maybe there is a specific sub-module which takes particularly long.

Another idea: I'm not a registry expert, but even though most of the offending data are now hopefully deleted, the registry files are probably still large because they are pretty fragmented now. There are probably tools out there to defragment/clean the registry. Sysinternals' page defragger comes to mind (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml).

Hope this helps,

Claus