Your link explicitly says you're wrong, though. Read it. It says: > My life would be a heck of a lot easier if per-application settings were stored in a place

Your link explicitly says you're wrong, though. Read it. It says: > My life would be a heck of a lot easier if per-application settings were stored in a place I could easily see them, manipulate them, and back them up. Like, say... in INI files. > The registry is opaque and binary. As much as I dislike the angle bracket tax, at least XML config files are reasonably human-readable, and they allow as many comments as you see fit. Now look at the comment you replied to: > Just because Windows' registry is hard to manually edit doesn't mean they are a bad idea. You said that's not the problem with the registry, but your own link says that's exactly the problem with the registry...