[OT} registry [was RE: [ILUG] Some more Questions : )]

[Brady, Padraig]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenn Humborg [mailto:kenn at bluetree.ie]
> 
> > Let me second that and add the point that the registry is quite easy
> > to corrupt bringing the whole system down!
> > The reason is that the registry is a keyed database that 
> keeps growing, 
> > and hence more susceptible to corruption that an ascii file.
> > For practically anthing windoze does it reads or writes the 
> registry,
> > hence the slow down of the system as it gets bigger that 
> was mentioned
> > above, but also greatly increases the chance of fecking it up!
> 
> I agree that a proprietary, undocumented binary lump is not 
> a good way to store every critical piece of config info
> for your machine.
> 
> But, in practice, how unreliable _is_ the Windows registry?
> In 3.5 years using Win95 and WinNT, I've _never_ seen registry
> corruption.  And this is on development machines (and we
> were once developing 16-bit apps on Win95 - can you say
> "hourly crashes"?)

you lucky lucky bastard!
I can think of (Oh the pain!) at least 9 on
3 different machines over the last 3 years.
When restoring from backups there were issues
with slight hardware changes since the backup
etc. etc. also various programs got in a twist
so invariably I had to reinstall everything again
from scratch.