Re: Windows registry recovery

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Flash wrote:
But you must plan ahead and document what apps you install. You must keep
backups of the last clean and functional registry . . . 

Sounds like more trouble than it's worth to me.
Collecting the necessary apps-information in a single reg file is not
perfect, but it is an improvement over what Microsoft did before, which
was to locate the app-specific information inside each
app-installation-folder in an ini file. This meant that you had hundreds
of ini files strewn all over the hardisk. It was impossible to backup and
recover later.
What's wrong with what Xy does--an ini.file in its own directory? Or why
not have all .ini files for all apps in one \windows\ini directory? Or why
not have one big win.ini file with a section for each app in which
everything for that app is contained? or one big .ini file in which every
app's data is prefixed or suffixed or commented with its name? MSFT must
have considered all this. On the other hand, you don't have a REG for Macs.

Thanks, anyway.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx