@apetti
Namely, allowing any programmer to use it as their personal playground. That was part of why there were so many registry issues in versions of Windows up to XP and why reinstalling Windows XP was the smart thing to do every 6 - 8 months...
With Vista, Microsoft stopped apps from using the registry as a space to leave messages between different modules. Mind you, Microsoft published a best practices guide for XP that strongly suggested not using the registry for this sort of thing - not that many programmers ever bothered to listen let alone follow those guidelines. That's why so many apps needed to be run as Admin.
@Mr. Dee
Getting rid of the registry would mean going back all the way to Windows 3.x - and all of the .INI files that littered the hard drive. Somehow that doesn't make a lot of sense.
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