Re: The problem With Windows

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:15:22 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Worked well? Ever try to find out which of multiple copies of the same
Registry key is the one you need to modify?
 
And the damn thing gets bigger and bigger (and presumably slower and
slower) as you install stuff.

What adds to the fun, is that the Registry was supposedly designed as a
purpose-built database, so that it could cope efficiently with lots of
data, and with concurrent read/write access by multiple processes; there
is apparently some kind of notification mechanism so one process can be
informed of changes being made to selected registry keys by another
process.

But none of this actually works. If you hand-edit the Registry, you are
usually recommended to reboot afterwards, notwithstanding the mechanism
that should be notifying affected processes of your changes. And of course
there is the need for crap like CCleaner (the first C originally stood for
“crap”, by the way), because it turns out that, contrary to all the
principles of good database design, trimming down the size of your
Registry really does speed things up.