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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.

I used it to clean out some

I used it to clean out some 600 keys. I haven't had a single problem of a key that still was needed being removed.