Are you afraid of the registry?

[madison2000]

Poll question: Are you afraid of the registry?

[DelawareValleyDem]

1. Only the Bridal Registry

[madison2000]

2. so many reg hackers on DU its amazing

[Rooktoven]

5. If I HAAAAVE to be on a winders machine I have no fear

Fortunately, most are banished from our office.

[seriousstan]

3. I have a wife AND kids. Let the registry take it's best shot.

I gave myself up for dead a long time ago BIIAATCH!!

[LynzM]

4. I know what it is,

I basically know what it does, so I stay the heck away from it unless I have help :)

[madison2000]

6. I do tech support, and I was appropriately afraid for many years

Now I have a mixture of healthy respect and fear. :bounce:

[Misunderestimator]

13. Good way of putting it... And always back up the registry before editing.

I just hacked mine on my new computer to get rid of some stupid viruschecking key for virus software I didn't have, because I couldn't install the virus program I wanted to install. I went in, deleted four keys and voila! Installed smooth as a charm.

(Of course, I made sure to search for a few sources for the appropriate fix before I dared.)

[Pithlet]

7. huh?

What is "the Registry"?

[madison2000]

8. Its where many computer settings are stored- in a Windows

operating system (95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP)

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/registry

[Pithlet]

10. And it's bad?

I should be afraid of it? I know nothing about computers other than I type and click, and things happen.

[Pithlet]

15. Ah, okay. My computer geek husband just explained it all to me.

I don't want to be messing around in there.

[DS1]

9. ahh, the registry, when it absolutely positively has to be destroyed

5 minutes ago :D

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. No, I am not afraid!

That's what regedit was made for. Umm, however, you should always make a reg.bak first. :)

[sans qualia]

12. I used to have nightmares about the registry

:scared:

[Osamasux]

14. Hkeyk No, I'm not!

[slutticus]

16. If I was afraid of the registry, then all my hacked progs wouldn't work.

:)