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What Is The Windows Registry?
DEFINITION:
The Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP Registry (also called registration
database) is a complex, unified, system wide, continually referenced during
operation database, used for centrally storing, locating, editing and
administering system, hardware, software and user configuration information,
following a hierarchical structure.
Its role is to replace the text/ASCII based MS-DOS configuration (.BAT, .SYS)
and MS Windows initialization (.INI) files, used by the old MS-DOS 3/4/5/6.xx,
MS Windows 3.xx and MS Windows for WorkGroups 3.1x releases.
Most data from the MS-DOS startup configuration files: AUTOEXEC.BAT and
CONFIG.SYS, and from the Windows system initialization files: CONTROL.INI,
SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, PROTOCOL.INI, NETWORK.INI etc, is now contained into the
Registry, together with most of the other system settings. Most Win32 (32-bit)
specific applications store their initialization and configuration data into
the Registry instead of into .INI files. The MS-DOS and .INI files are kept
only for backward compatibility with older MS-DOS and Win16 (16-bit) based
programs.
The Registry is stored in binary data executable format (.DAT), and the
information it contains can be accessed (read from and/or written to) at any
time during operation by any Registry aware Windows programs, as needed.
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