"Victor A. Wagner Jr." wrote:
I've heard rumors that even MS had finally recognized that the registry was a bad idea. So, whatcha gonna do when it disappears?
I doubt that they will get rid of it entirely, for application compatibility reasons. But, in theory, in such case I would use *.ini files, eventually in XML format. Environment easily gets too large, too messy and unmanageable (especially when you add also Java and/or Python) and I can not understand why would each tool or app pollute global environment. If you think a bit about it, there is no huge difference between the environment and the registry except that latter has a tree structure (as opposed to flat key-value environment) and does not get passed to each app as a block of memory. Tony