Keeping “snapshots” of your registry on a windows machine is one of the fastest ways to improve your understanding of how a lot of commercial software “does bus

Keeping “snapshots” of your registry on a windows machine is one of the fastest ways to improve your understanding of how a lot of commercial software “does business”. From weird (or outright dangerous trial license tricks, I once saw a shareware program that stashed its keys with a fake program name in a legit Adobe registry tree path) to programs that store detailed settings to a level that really warrants a dedicated settings file/database or even what UI mode they are in just spamming the registry all the time… no wonder some people had constant problems with registry corruption back in the day!