Applications that write to the registry, are they portable?

[Andrew Lee]

Holy cow.. that's complicated!

[Midas]

That's complicated!

Apparently, it's also poorly implemented... (or it least was, since what follows is a rather old reference):

I've just spent a couple of weeks reverse engineering the binary format completely for our hivex library and shell which now supports both reading and writing to the registry. So now I can tell you why the Registry sucks from a technical point of view too...

@ https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/why-the-windows-registry-sucks-technically/

[Andrew Lee]

Apparently, it's also poorly implemented... (or it least was, since what follows is a rather old reference):

I've just spent a couple of weeks reverse engineering the binary format completely for our hivex library and shell which now supports both reading and writing to the registry. So now I can tell you why the Registry sucks from a technical point of view too...

@ https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/why-the-windows-registry-sucks-technically/

Wow, that was brutal, but an engaging read!