I could not agree more with Larry's position on this. The more programs
that write to the registry the more likely it is to get screwed up. I am
running a number of programs that have nothing to do with the registry and
they all operate quite nicely. They were the ones that still operated after
Win 98 informed me that it was going to update the registry and asked me to
click OK. I did and that was the end of that machine's functionality until
I did a complete reformat and restore. The only programs that still worked
and which enabled me to get all the important files off the machine were DOS
based.
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At 07:09 AM 11/19/01 -0800, you wrote:
>> R:Base would do well to store dynamic data like
>recent files in the
>> registry, rather than in the INI file. That is
>where most programs store
>> this kind of information. The less you write to
>important files like
>this,
>> the less chance there is of them being corrupted.
>
>I vote a big NO on this idea. Using the registry for
>storage means that in
>the event of corruption, the entire OS is open for
>damage, not just the
>setup for an individual program. Also, the registry
>is much harder to edit
>for people who need to do manual configuration or who
>need to recover from
>some kind of problem.
>
>I used the registry for storing settings in the
>original version of R:Code,
>and have moved away from it in later programs.
>Sometimes the new ways are
>not better ways.
>--
>Larry
>
>
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