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The Windows Registry - Why (and Where) Does It Exist?

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Mar 15, 20261088 views
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Was talking to a friend about the registry, and realized I couldn't remember the issues Microsoft was trying to solve that brought it into being. I know it had something to do with too many different programs storing their preferences in too many different places/ways, but as I said that it didn't …

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Fix for: The Windows Registry - Why (and Where) Does It Exist?

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Registry is stored in multiple files. There is pretty good description with locations on Wikipedia. Search is not slow if you use it as intended. It is indexed based on value names and path to them so loading and saving values is fast. Searching thr…

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