The Old New Thing

February 4, 2009 - The Old New Thing

Being lucky is observing what you weren’t expecting: An illustration

February 4, 2009 Feb 4, 2009 02/4/09
Raymond Chen
I decided to begin searching for a replacement for my current laptop computer since it was by this point literally being held together with electrical tape, and I decided to go against my more common computer replacement policy of "Wait until it breaks, and then panic." There was one model I had my eye on, and it was on sale at a local big...

What is the terminology for describing the various parts of the registry?

February 4, 2009 Feb 4, 2009 02/4/09
Raymond Chen
Hives, keys, values, types, and data. As I noted some years ago, the file that holds the registry data is called a hive. A hive contains a tree of keys. Keys contain a list of values. Associated with each value is a type and data. The terminology is weird and counter-intuitive thanks to the history of the registry. Back in the ...