Are you using Vista or XP? I haven’t used Erunt, but I have used another program they make called NTREGOPT. it worked good with XP but not so well with Vista. ( Vista would start doing weird things) after several tries I gave up.
Plus the fact it hasn’t been updated since 2005 would give me pause as it wouldn’t take into account Vista SP1 or XP SP3.
ERUNT and NTREGOPT work well with Vista, yes even with Vista 64 bit. Obviously you need to run them as an admin or else they won’t work. Used both for years and have never failed me. Here, check out if MS considers them compatible.
@ Tech: Actually NTREGOPT doesn’t “defrag” your registry. What it actually does is it recreates each registry hive and what that does is it removes any gaps(blank spaces) that were left over by previously modified or deleted keys and that makes the registry smaller. That’s why i always say it’s completely safe to use since it doesn’t change the contents of the registry.
EDIT: To clarify further, this method is called registry compacting and as i said it doesn’t physically defrag the registry files, you need someting like PageDefrag for that(or any other decent defrag with boot-time defrag option). I use PerfectDisk myself and that one defrags the registry hives, mft, metadata etc etc. You name it, it defrags it. ;D
Yeah i know and i don’t understand why they can’t(or are not willing to) make it Vista compatible. Like i said i use PerfectDisk myself and that one takes care of the registry fragmentation. I think Ultra Defrag should be able to take care of it since it has a boot time defrag option but i am just not sure. I’ll look into it.
It indeed does say it works with Vista on their page, trust me it works flawlessly. Like i said just make sure to RUN IT AS ADMIN. Otherwise it won’t work.