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Windows 10 and 11 have moved away from the registry for applications. It's in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\<AppName> for per-user information I hav

Windows 10 and 11 have moved away from the registry for applications. It's in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\<AppName> for per-user information I haven't had to go into the registry on Windows 10 or 11 except for enabling beta/early access features.

phendrenad2 4y ago
That's a new alternative to the registry, and some prominent programmers like Raymond Chen have promoted using it, but it's still up to app developers which they want to use. I doubt that the registry is going away any time soon.
- WorldMaker 4y ago
  %AppData% and its roaming friends have been around since Windows 95. It's not "new". It's just that we've finally gotten some developers to understand what it is for this many decades later, with one of the big humps being when Vista added UAC and security things that should have been obvious in documentation were finally enforced.
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drbawb 4y ago
>I haven't had to go into the registry on Windows 10 or 11 except for enabling beta/early access features. I have to edit the registry on every Windows install to have: sane multi-monitor config, working macro keys (suppress the "office" key advertisement in my $300 copy of Windows), suppress OneDrive Personal on a machine that syncs to an O365 tenant, have a functional file explorer, and I'm sure a half-dozen other things that don't come to mind immediately. (On top of numerous group policies, which are mostly just sanctioned registry tweaks, along with programs to removed telemetry from 10/11 which I'm confident do plenty of registry tweaking on their own.) This is all to control first-party functionality; before I've even installed a third party program. So, to the contrary, I can't remember the last time I went into %APPDATA% to tweak something Microsoft-related.
ComputerGuru 4y ago
That's been around since Windows NT. Whether or not Microsoft uses it for their own (in-box or out-of-box) products is a different question.
int_19h 4y ago
AppData\Local or AppData\Roaming, depending on whether the setting is machine-specific or machine-independent.

phendrenad2 4y ago

That's a new alternative to the registry, and some prominent programmers like Raymond Chen have promoted using it, but it's still up to app developers which they want to use. I doubt that the registry is going away any time soon.

WorldMaker 4y ago
%AppData% and its roaming friends have been around since Windows 95. It's not "new". It's just that we've finally gotten some developers to understand what it is for this many decades later, with one of the big humps being when Vista added UAC and security things that should have been obvious in documentation were finally enforced.
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drbawb 4y ago

>I haven't had to go into the registry on Windows 10 or 11 except for enabling beta/early access features. I have to edit the registry on every Windows install to have: sane multi-monitor config, working macro keys (suppress the "office" key advertisement in my $300 copy of Windows), suppress OneDrive Personal on a machine that syncs to an O365 tenant, have a functional file explorer, and I'm sure a half-dozen other things that don't come to mind immediately. (On top of numerous group policies, which are mostly just sanctioned registry tweaks, along with programs to removed telemetry from 10/11 which I'm confident do plenty of registry tweaking on their own.) This is all to control first-party functionality; before I've even installed a third party program. So, to the contrary, I can't remember the last time I went into %APPDATA% to tweak something Microsoft-related.

ComputerGuru 4y ago

That's been around since Windows NT. Whether or not Microsoft uses it for their own (in-box or out-of-box) products is a different question.

int_19h 4y ago

AppData\Local or AppData\Roaming, depending on whether the setting is machine-specific or machine-independent.