Yep, I think the registry is far better than the mess of files on Linux. On Windows the answer to "where is this configured", 95% of the time, is the registry.

Yep, I think the registry is far better than the mess of files on Linux. On Windows the answer to "where is this configured", 95% of the time, is the registry. I'm not saying it's perfect, because it isn't. But it's better than files scattered everywhere.