> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Reeves [mailto:paul@...]
> Sent: Lunes 1 de Mayo de 2000 18:38
>
> Centralising configuration information is a good idea. Making it
> excessively
> difficult to view, edit, archive or restore from is not.

> Paul
> --
> Paul Reeves
> Fleet River Software

When I read the explanation for the registry and the exigence that "logo
applications" should use it instead of plain text INI files, one of the
reasons MS gave was:

«
Because INI files are easily modificable and deletable by users.
»
Another reason was INI files had practical size limits and aren't
structured nor nested.
However, you should know that the registry has practical limits: for
performance, it only is allowed to grow to a certain percentage of the
physical RAM size. Go above that and your get some messages or simple can't
continue. The registry is for keeping settings. However, several dumb
companies and developers have used it as a mini-database for general data. I
won't name these rogue applications, discover them for yourself, I have 5
years of heavy registry navigation.

C.