[Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

Charles Krug charles@pentek.com
Fri Sep 27 06:58:00 GMT 2002


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.


-- 
Charles Krug, Jr.
Systems Engineer
Pentek Corp
1 Park Way
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458


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