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#1 Guest_scaramonga_*

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Posted 16 May 2008 - 12:08 AM

Another Forum has this topic going and I thought it would be interesting to see our views on this subject :P

I'll start:

Why cant a Windows system detect what changes have beem made to the registry, and report thus to the user? Also, why is it that Windows cannot detect leftover trash in Registry when third party software has been uninstalled?

This is what 'I' want to see in Windows, nothing graphical or cosmetic, just useful operations that, quite frankly, should have been implemented in XP, let alone Vista.

Edited by scaramonga, 16 May 2008 - 12:25 AM.


#2 m.oreilly

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Posted 16 May 2008 - 12:31 AM

how about get rid of the registry all together...

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Posted 16 May 2008 - 05:21 AM

I think MO's got something there :P

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Posted 17 May 2008 - 03:40 PM

Isn't there a plan or hasn't there been mention of an xml like or definitely an xml database to replace the registry at some point? Perhaps when WinFS arrives...can't recall but I think this is a future planned change.

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Posted 17 May 2008 - 05:01 PM

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Isn't there a plan or hasn't there been mention of an xml like or definitely an xml database to replace the registry at some point? Perhaps when WinFS arrives...can't recall but I think this is a future planned change.

That would be nice, registry structure is complex and hard to manipulate in practice.

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Posted 20 May 2008 - 05:32 AM

I agree about the registry. There...now i feel like i contributed.




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