On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:25:53 -0800, Oren wrote:

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:51:34 -0600, "
wrote:

When I started in with DOS based IBM's and their clones we used
"registry cleaners" although they were not always named as such.
Actually, registries NEVER needed cleaning...just a bit of tweaking.

They never needed cleaning because THEY DIDN'T EXIST.

Some IBM clones did not have a HDD to store these monster sized
registries. Might be the poster is talking about a 15 page batch file.
Getting the autoexec.bat and config.sys tuned right was something of
an art back in the day.