Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Not quite true. It's just not supported if there's no button. There's 
>> all kinds of things you can tweak but only if you know what you're doing.
> 
> IME, most of the stuff you have to manually tweak the registry for is 
> compatibility settings or obscure configuration that only a system 
> administrator for a large company would care about. 

Right. Basically, a lot of the stuff targetted at people who can read a KB 
article and understand what it's saying and not screw up the registry while 
editting it.

Essentially, in MS, there are multiple levels of configuration. Tweak the 
registry is the first. Run a command-line program that sets the options is 
second (because then you have to support it). A GUI is third (because then 
you need help messages, translating into dozens of languages, etc.)

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