Hello Group On Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 7:06:46 AM, Allister wrote:
> Personally, I've never understood the fascination Windows software has > with the Registry. What on earth is wrong with properties files? If > you give the user a choice where to store them, then proper backups are > a breeze and multi-user setups are simple. You'll be glad to hear that Microsoft has come round to this way of thinking, to some extent at least. They have been recommending for some time that applications should keep configuration data in their own configuration files, with the advent of .NET probably an XML file rather than an INI file. I expect that it will take some years for developers to catch up, having learned how to use the registry. The key advantage, apart from avoiding registry bloat, is that apps don't need to be 'installed' if they don't use the registry, you can just copy them to your HD. 80% of my most used apps don't use the registry. They are on my 'D' drive and, after a periodic re-install of XP, they work immediately. -- Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK :Jeff_Gaines: ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.5.25 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
