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>And on the rare occasions when you had a problem you would immediately know what part of the control panel or the registry to go to and fix it yourself. Occasi
by dTal 4y ago
>And on the rare occasions when you had a problem you would immediately know what part of the control panel or the registry to go to and fix it yourself. Occasionally you had to google...
I don't believe anyone in the history of ever has fixed a problem on their Windows box by confidently wading into the system registry and changing exactly the correct thing. Of all the things to wave around as superior to the Linux way of doing things, the system registry is an odd choice.
In fact, I lay a challenge: without googling, type the full path of any single registry key.
- rrdharan 4y agoI can’t pass your challenge but I’ve done it. Memory doesn’t work that way. Open regedit HKLM/CurrentVersion?/MicrosoftWindows/…/<something>/Run and delete whatever dumb Dell startup tray app has set itself up to start automatically. I don’t remember the name of the key but I can navigate to it quickly using arrow keys. Of course this is many years ago before I knew about msconfig…
- ChrisLomont 4y ago>In fact, I lay a challenge: without googling, type the full path of any single registry key. Strawman. You can click registry paths and look around, you can search, and sometimes when something is borked, messages in the logs even tell you what registry key to fiddle with. I've been fiddling with the registry before google was around, so it certainly does not require google or any search. Those only make it easier to share things with others.