The Registry is what has always set Windows apart from other operating systems; in fact, it’s only Windows that does things the Registry way. Whereas Unix-based operating systems such as Linux, Android, and Mac OS use a series of folders such as /etc that contain configuration files for the operating system and installed applications, the Windows Registry consists of a series of binary database files.
You might think that this would make the Registry more secure than the Unix approach, in which many ...
