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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by theandrewbailey on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @10:20AM (#21334874)
> If your software relies on information in the registry to make decisions, it'll often make decisions based on outdated information a long uninstalled (or upgraded) program left there.

Why is your software looking at registry entries that it didn't create?

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Re:My transition to an Ubuntu workstation by rbanffy on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @10:27AM (#21334945)
> Why is your software looking at registry entries that it didn't create?

I may want to know where Photoshop is installed to I can register a plugin. Or know about the printers installed. Or know more about the environment than the OS is willing to tell me. Or those may be entries that older versions of other applications of mine did create. Or Windows. Or older versions of Windows.

There are many reasons to look into registry entries that aren't the ones you wrote.

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