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Feb 4, 2009
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Being lucky is observing what you weren’t expecting: An illustration

Raymond Chen
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-box ...

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Feb 4, 2009
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What is the terminology for describing the various parts of the registry?

Raymond Chen
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 days ...

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