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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by hackbinary on Friday July 29, 2022 @02:03PM (#32280038)
The Windows Registry is a pretty good key-value store for centrally storing config.

Because some, perhaps many, have abused the originally good idea, does not invalidate its positive aspects.

Also, I do not agree it is a file system. It is a key-value storage system that is leagues better than the win.ini, system.ini, and the prolific ini file collection hell it replaced.

Some form of version control would make the registry better.

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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by thehappypm on Friday July 29, 2022 @03:48PM (#32281044)
It’s impressive because they actually achieved that level of centralization. Most systems aim to have a centralized configuration “place” but it doesn’t stick. With windows the registry really did stick
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