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Cleanup your GNOME GConf database

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The other day I stumbled upon this neat tool that helps cleanup your GConf registry, called GConf Cleaner. While GNOME registry size isn't nowhere near the size of Windows registry, and thus shouldn't slow your computer too much, it's still nice to have a tool that cleans unused and obsolete entries.

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gconf-cleaner is a Google Summer of Code project.

Also, although I've never

Also, although I've never tried this, you can delete the whole GConf database and Gnome will just rebuild it with default values the next time you log in. Try that with the Windows registry.