RE: Windows registry recovery

["Phil White" pdwhite@xxxxxxxx]

Harry,

	Regarding: "On the other hand, you don't have a REG for Macs." The
reality is that regardless of whether the MAC has a registry equivalent or
not, you can't really get at it.

	This puts the MAC OC concept into the same class as the Norton
Utilities and dittoes I cussed out in my earlier OT Email. ;-)

	Phil White

Philip D. White,
Senior Information Architect
University of Houston, CASA Testing Center

Phone: (713) 743-4135
Fax: (713) 743-8630
Email: pdwhite@xxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harry Binswanger
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 3:57
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Windows registry recovery

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.


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Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx