Registry Maxed Out for System

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I restored my Win XP system from an image backup. This backup was of SP 2.
After restoring, MS Update installed SP3. Thereafter I sometimes get the
following message during boot: "The system has reached the maximum size
allowed for the system part of the registry. Additional storage requests
will be ignored". Can anybody tell me if they have ever heard of this
message and what might be causing it? I have fewer programs on my machine
now, when i am getting the message than I did before the restore, before the
message appeared.
 
Re: Registry Maxed Out for System

dickf wrote:
> I restored my Win XP system from an image backup. This backup was of
> SP 2. After restoring, MS Update installed SP3. Thereafter I
> sometimes get the following message during boot: "The system has
> reached the maximum size allowed for the system part of the registry.
> Additional storage requests will be ignored". Can anybody tell me if
> they have ever heard of this message and what might be causing it? I
> have fewer programs on my machine now, when i am getting the message
> than I did before the restore, before the message appeared.

There is no maximum size for the Windows registry.

Reports of this message point to Nvidia drivers. The suggested fix is to go
to the Nvidia web site, download the appropriate driver, and replace your
existing drivers with the new ones.
 
Re: Registry Maxed Out for System

Dick

Google is your friend:
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/14737/what-is-the-maximum-registry-size.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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dickf wrote:
> I restored my Win XP system from an image backup. This backup was of
> SP 2. After restoring, MS Update installed SP3. Thereafter I
> sometimes get the following message during boot: "The system has
> reached the maximum size allowed for the system part of the registry.
> Additional storage requests will be ignored". Can anybody tell me if
> they have ever heard of this message and what might be causing it? I
> have fewer programs on my machine now, when i am getting the message
> than I did before the restore, before the message appeared.
 
Re: Registry Maxed Out for System

Gerry wrote:
> Dick
>
> Google is your friend:
> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/14737/what-is-the-maximum-registry-size.html
>
>

The article must be out of date or applies to Win98

From Microsoft:

"In Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and in Microsoft Windows XP, the Registry
Size Limit (RSL) functionality has been removed. Therefore, there are no
longer any limits on the total amount of space that may be consumed by
registry data (hives) in paged pool memory, and in disk space."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292726
 
Re: Registry Maxed Out for System

HeyBub

You're right except that the link I provided was referring to Windows
2000 not Windows 98.


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Gerry
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Enquire, plan and execute
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HeyBub wrote:
> Gerry wrote:
>> Dick
>>
>> Google is your friend:
>> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/14737/what-is-the-maximum-registry-size.html
>>
>>
>
> The article must be out of date or applies to Win98
>
> From Microsoft:
>
> "In Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and in Microsoft Windows XP, the
> Registry Size Limit (RSL) functionality has been removed. Therefore,
> there are no longer any limits on the total amount of space that may
> be consumed by registry data (hives) in paged pool memory, and in
> disk space."
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292726
 
Re: Registry Maxed Out for System

You're right John. If I had delved deeper I might have spotted that the
KB Article in the link refers to Windows 2000. Oh well you win some and
you lose some.


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Regards.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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John John (MVP) wrote:
> Not applicable to Windows XP, Windows 2000 was the last version to use
> this setting. Windows XP/Server 2003 and later ignores this setting.
>
> Registry Size Limit functionality has been removed from Windows Server
> 2003 and from Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292726&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH
>
> John
>
> Gerry wrote:
>> Dick
>>
>> Google is your friend:
>> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/14737/what-is-the-maximum-registry-size.html
 
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