Understanding the Registry
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Hi, The Registry is increasingly becomming the 'Dark Part' of the computer, a part that is poorly understood. I hail back to the old DOS 3.1 days. DOS did not have a registry, it had an 'environment' This was very rudimentary. (DOS was also a Single User, Single thread efford). This DOS 'Environment', was once described as 'A Wall to write grafiti on', and, that was a true statement. The point was, that whatever was written there would be largely ignored by each and every program, until a program found a piece of information it was looking for. Manually Adding a piece of information to the registry can never cause a problem, unless there is an application, which when running, queeries the added entry. Redundant Registry entries cannot slow down a computer. This even applies to so called redundant 'COM' Links in the registry. The whole subject is becomming worthy of an 'Article'. I just need the time to write it.
Bram van Kampen