More poorly informed registry bashing. 1. Every registry key can have its own ACL (Access Control List). So you can have highly granular permissions. 2. "The

More poorly informed registry bashing. 1. Every registry key can have its own ACL (Access Control List). So you can have highly granular permissions. 2. "The registry" is not stored in one file. It's actually a few different hives which are stored as separate files. Your user-level registry settings are stored in your user profile (i.e. home directory) and roams with your user account to different machines in a domain.