Was The Windows Registry a Good Idea?
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| What's depressing about all of this is how prescient the UNIX conventions are
| in retrospect. How many billions of man-hours could we have saved by now if
| some early Windows NT 3.0 or 3.5 developers had decided to turn off public
| access to the registry, and transparently redirected the public registry API
| calls so they followed simpler, UNIX-like filesystem storage conventions
| instead?
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http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000939.html
Related:
Why is Windows Registry Cleaning Necessary
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| For this reason, periodic Windows Registry cleaning will not only
| optimize your system's performance, but can also extend its life
| expectancy by keeping the Registry's growth uniform and in check.
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http://www.articleswww.com/Article/Why-is-Windows-Registry-Cleaning-Necessary/26128
PC Windows Registry must be clean - who cares?
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| I believe almost nobody cares about this. This is because almost
| nobody knows that his/her PC even has a registry or heard about
| its influences on the computer's performance. But all PC users
| have to care: when your computer becomes much slower than it
| used to be, when its performance becomes unstable, it is notb
| ecause the computer is "tired" but most probably because its
| registry gets "dusty".
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http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=499235
Final thoughts and questions
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| The Vista train is running full steam to its release date on November
| 30 to businesses and January 30, 2007 to store shelves. Is Vista
| really ready? That depends on what it will be ready for. We expect
| that the biggest headache for users will be so-called in-placeu
| pgrades. While Vista was reasonable on all the machines where we
| performed a clean install, it was an absolute mess on the machine
| upgraded from XP, and this problem has been noted by others.
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http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/vintagevista.ars
KDE config to get a SQL backend
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| Mickael Marchand created a branch in KDE SVN to work on a KDE configuration
| storage system based SQL. This picks up the idea to have more ways in KDE to
| store the configuration than just having the file based way.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/kde-config-to-get-a-sql-backend/
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