Guest dickf Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 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.
Guest HeyBub Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 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.
Guest Gerry Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 Re: Registry Maxed Out for System Dick Google is your friend: http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/14737/what-is-the-maximum-registry-size.html -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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.
Guest HeyBub Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 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
Guest John John (MVP) Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 Re: Registry Maxed Out for System 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 >
Guest Gerry Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 Re: Registry Maxed Out for System HeyBub You're right except that the link I provided was referring to Windows 2000 not Windows 98. ~~~~ Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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
Guest Gerry Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 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. -- Regards. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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