Hi Ed ---

Isn't the number of registry entries fixed at 32K or 64K or something like that on Win95? I had this guys exact same problem when trying to use VS6 and Office2000 on the same Win95 machine. The only way I found out of it was to start deleting with Windows Uninstall that looked like they ate a lot of reg space and then ran RegClean.


>>When I first installed Visual Studio 6 I was warned about needing to increase the size of my Registry File settings so it could hold more info. It said to see the Help for this issue and nowhere was it to be found! Image That! Well now that I have tried to install more apps it is now giving me errors of "Unable To Update System Registry Error 168".
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>>Has anyone else ran into this problem and if so how did you fix it. I have searched the MS KB and my 2 books on Using the Windows 95 Registry and Inside the Windows 95 Registry and have still have not found the answer.
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>Under WinNT, the size of the registry can't grow beyond 25% of the defined swap file space; increasing the swap file(s) would be the only way to do this under NT (under NT, more than one swap file can, and with multiple physical hard drives, should be allocated.)
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>If you're currently running a Win9x system, I'm not sure what approach to take; i use a fixed-size swap file on a separate directory of about 400MB, and I've yet to run into this problem (and I have a huge amount of crap on the system at any given time.) You might try freeing up some disk space on the bott drive for NT (that's where the registry files actually live) if you're running tight on space, and try moving the swap file to another logical drive if you're in a position to do this.
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>If you're running Win98, you can try running the registry repair tool in the System Information applet. You could also download REGCLEAN (make sure it's at least version 4.1; there were bugs in some of the earlier releases that did things to the registry that shouldn't even be done to COBOL programmers.
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>>TIA