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What is the purpose of config\Software.log

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What is the purpose of: C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\Software.log How to open it.

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The file contains the journal of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software hive. If the machine crashes while in the middle of updating a registry key in that hive, the .log file is used to recover the registry. I would recommend not messing with the file unl…

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