Windows Registry has been one of the most fascinating part of an Operating System. Each Operating system has its own way of storing important data related to User accounts, System Configuration and information related to the Software’s installed. In the earlier times when DOS was one of the main Operating system, it used to store its important data in file named CONFIG.SYS.
With the beginning of the Windows era, a stronger method was required to store the System related Data. Windows had a configuration file named SYSTEM.INI (initialization files) and WIN.INI and mostly every application had its own INI file.
The drawback of INI files was that they had a limited file size of 64KB only and each program could have only one INI file, making it a lot difficult to store settings for different users and hence Microsoft introduced Windows Registry in Windows 95 and since then Windows have always had its backbone, it Registry. Here I’ve described the basics of the Windows registry.
THE WINDOWS REGISTRY- Begins
