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Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM


On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:38:21PM -0700, Doru Carastan wrote:
> How about breaking free from using the windoze registry.  There is
> absolutely no special need to use it IMO.

I'll second that.  Relying on a single monolithic binary file for system
critical information is an extraordinarily bad idea.

A single ill-behaved program can render the system unbootable.  AFAIK,
the only thing that MUST be in there is the uninstall information.


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Charles Krug, Jr.
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Pentek Corp
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Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458


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