The Registry is at the heart of everything that happens on your PC. Indeed, absolutely nothing can happen, including drivers and services being loaded at startup, to configuration changes and app usage, without the Registry being referenced, or without a Registry change being made. It is, quite simply, the brain of the PC.
Back in the days of Windows 3.1, you might remember, each program you installed had its own .ini file. This was a plain text document in which you would set configuration options for the program, such as the folder the program was installed in. Windows ...