On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 21:59:04, Jonathan Bayer wrote: > Hello Jernej, > Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 3:46:51 PM, you wrote: >> Err, what's the point of Registry then? > Something to hide parameters, configuration items, etc from the > general user. It is fragile, and the system won't boot if it is > broken.
Times of Windows 9x and it's fragile registry are long in the past. I haven't seen registry corruption (that wasn't a direct result of hardware failure) on Windows 2000 or newer. If everything that's currently reading and writing the registry would use separate files instead, your computer'd work either much slower (because everybody would be flushing those minuscule changes in small files all the time), or configuration file corruption would be an everyday occurrence. And while this isn't really important for home users, without Registry you also lose the ability to control programs from a central location (which is very important in corporate networks - you don't want the admin to visit every machine, or write a separate script for every program). > IMHO, the registry is the worst thing about Windows. I can live with > everything else, but the registry is the one thing that breaks windows > more often than I can count. Really? In my experience, by far the most often cause of Windows breakage is various spyware, followed by dying hard drives, bad drivers and bad RAM (but these three together don't account for even half of the spyware cases). I don't remember when I last saw registry corruption, and there's a lot of computers I deal with. -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ > If a computer cable has one end, then it has another. -- Lyall's Conjecture ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
