The registry is not a DB or filesystem it is the registry. My main gripe with the post is it keeps comparing it to Unix things. It is a place to "register" sta

The registry is not a DB or filesystem it is the registry. My main gripe with the post is it keeps comparing it to Unix things. It is a place to "register" state and configuration to allow other programs and the admin to manipulate that value or make decisions based on it. Not everything hierarchial is a filesystem and while you can argue it is a db, if it is then it is a very specific purpose built key/value storage db. I won't dissect the post and respond but the registry structure is not a mess, it is well known and different places have different permissions and purpose.