Shrink Registry (CFVariables)

[Kosch]

Hi

We've been having a few problems with our servers recently and looking into
it I discovered that the software registry hive on both servers was around 2GB,
now I know that windows 2003 doesnt impose a limit on Hives but from my
standpoint this isnt good for the health of the server (explains why somtimes
it takes ages to boot and we get BSODs on hives). After a bit of rooting around
I discovered that Coldfusion 6.11 is storing the client variables in the
registry. I'm looking to swap this over to a SQL database in the new few days.

My real question is, does Macromedia/Adobe provide a util that will clean out
all the items its been storing in the registry so I can get my server back to
normal?

[nyck6623]

I am quite positive there are CF scripts out there to do this task
systematically. We had this issue a while back on CF5 servers storing the
client vars in the registry.
All that really needs to be done is purging the key located here(CF5):
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Allaire\ColdFusion\CurrentVersion\Cl ients

[Kosch]

I downloaded the following purge tool from adbove at
[url]http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_17881[/url]

This cleared out over 48,000 entries stored in the registry.
Although the registry for the software hive was still 2GB, I then used a
Registry Compacting tool (probably the best one I've seen) from
[url]http://www.experimentalscene.com/download.php?list.2[/url] this then shrunk the
software hive down to 14MB!

I've now converted to using SQL storage and just need to wait now to see if we
keep getting Hive BSOD's . This was on Windows 2003 Standard Edition SP1

Doug