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Re:NSIS 3.0 ready by tobias3 on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:22AM (#12247976)
Since Vista Windows has transactional NTFS and registry e.g. CreateFileTransacted and RegOpenKeyTransacted, so it should be possible...
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Re:NSIS 3.0 ready by anton_gogolev on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:44AM (#12248162)
Transactional NTFS is deprecated [0], and having a transactional Registry buys you very little.

[0]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh8...

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Re:NSIS 3.0 ready by tobias3 on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:18AM (#12248421)
I know that. But that wouldn't stop Microsoft from using it.
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