Never edited my registry before - Overclock.net

BabyHerc · 01-26-08

So I was reading through the Ultimate Windows XP Optimizer Guide part two, and came across this step:

40. UNLOADING DLL'S: Every piece of software has DLL's that it uses. when the program closes windows keeps these cached after the program closes wasting memory space.To make it so that windows doesn't cache them do the following. Go to ''Start'' then ''Run'' and type ''Regedit''. Once you have done that locate ''HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer '', and then under that create a new key and name it ''AlwaysUnloadDLL'' and give it a value of 1.

I'm confused about the "creat a new key". I did what it says, but I'm not sure if I did it right. Should the "AlwaysUnloadDLL" be entered on the right side when Explorer is highlighted, or did I do it correctly here? Pic below:

Emmanuel · 01-26-08

No, you got it wrong, you need to right click on the right column and select "Dword" instead. In the DWord settings, call it "AlwaysUnloadDLL", then right click on it and click "change value" and set it to 1. But I would not recommend to do this registry edit at all, especially if you are new to this. Many users have reported having problems during bootup after performing this tweak.