Hey computer geeks, any of you like the Windows registry?

[thermodynamic]

:shrug:

Personally, I despise it.

.INI files were bad enough, but the registry is just horrendous. Pitifully designed as well, making a reinstall of the OS inevitable, XP not excluded from this. Even when uninstalling Microsoft's own apps from its own operating system, it doesn't bother to clean up after itself.

Every program should have its own separate config file and not jumbled into the config files made for the OS.

This SCO lawsuit had better be dismissed as the nonsense it truly is...

And I have a beef with any corporation that uses Windows Server products. No way should bloatware be running something critical like a server for pity's sake!!! Especially when Microsoft made it; all their products are slipshod. Even Linux, a platform which would give the impression of being slipshod, seems more professional looking and acting.

[DEMActivist]

1. Cutest one on the planet....

RUNDLL32.exe - allows a DLL file to run as an exeuctuable program.

Why would ANYONE want that to happen?

[thermodynamic]

2. A DLL file is a 'library' file composed of many small exe files

Microsoft created this ostensibly so other developers would use the same DLLs they provided and, as a result, create a streamlined codebase that would be easy to upgrade.

My, talk about what they claim and what turns out to be reality...

"DLL Hell" is one of the things Microsoft created for itself, and deserves to go out of business for. The registry is another embarrassment. Not embarrassment, but abomination.

[ParanoidPat]

3. Have you tried Reg Clean?

You can download it free here! :evilgrin:

Reg Clean:-

Regclean 4.1a This cleans out the Debris from your very precious Windows Registry files.

RegCleaner 4.3 by JouniVuorio There are of course other programs that clean out the registry, not only the MICROSOFT version, I personaly can recomend this one, when you have it Downloaded and installed go to Tools/Registry Cleanup/DoThem All its as easy as that. After it has found all the DEAD registry entires, simply Select All and Remove Selected.

Works for me! :)

[thermodynamic]

6. Oh, I've tried many - this'll make you paranoid

Regclean requires 2 or more runs to clean everything.

A mix of several professional 3rd party reg cleaners are needed for maximum results. I've got a bunch of them at work.

Also, nothing compresses the registry. When keys and values are removed, they leave big open gaps in the registry file structure. And the larger the file means the larger the potential for problems, the least of which is fragmenting.

Sorry, but Windows was designed by a bunch of smegheads...

In the long run, you'll still have problems. Needless problems.

[lcordero]

4. I'm a very big fan of mandrake linux

They just put out 9.2beta1. I'm hoping that they are going to reintroduce bastille back into mandrake.

SCO is on its last legs. Caldera(SCO) went downhill very fast a couple of CEOs ago. Somebody that's big is going to have to hit them with an aggressive lawsuit just so that it can finish killing SCO.

[thermodynamic]

7. I hope so!

I mean, SCO can acquire the copyrights all it wants after it makes the lawsuits ( :eyes: ).

From what I heard, SCO had also released its own version of Linux. Under the GPL, that code becomes open - or didn't SCO realize that? Admittedly I haven't been keeping up on all the details, but I can see how this lawsuit would stem out of desperation.

Let SCO die then. :-( Corporations who play dirty don't allow to exist. (And if that would become a reality, we'd lose all the monopolies and big corporations and probably a lot more small and medium ones too.)

[Syrinx]

5. I use Linux these days

Unfortunately, if I hear correctly, gtk 2+ uses a similar scheme.

I don't get it.

[Syrinx]

8. I meant Gnome of course, not gtk

[Nlighten1]

9. The Windows registry is a sack of shit.

I love the way Linux uses text files to store configuration information.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

10. I love it. Almost as much fun as a root canal.

n/t

[DS1]

11. I am an uber-windows-geek, and I HATE the registry

It has screwed me over completely, a faulty CommonName uninstall has fucked my browsing habits over forever. I hate the registry, it's the achilles heel of M$.

Did I mention I hate it? Because I do.