In article <47c232de$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
> > Why bow to MS' broken system, 
> 
> MS doesn't want you to bow to MS's broken system. That's why there's 
> both ...\local data\application settings and ...\application settings, 
> depending on whether it's machine-local or not.
> 
> > Recreating "one" file specific to the program
> > yours using, is manageable, not recreating one huge file that used to
 
> > contain stuff for 50 some odd programs. 
> 
> Me, I've never seen why this is more of a problem than (say) 
> accidentally deleting /etc. But still, moving configuration into the 
> registry at *this* point is still a generation behind.
> 
Well, strictly its probably not. Though if you want to restore the 
files, deleting them means you still *can*, while something that mangles 
the registry is most likely to be "fixed" during start up, when the odds 
of things being overwritten is high, and any glitch is going to be 
permanent. I.e., by the time you realize that you need to fix 50 files 
worth of data you can't fix it.

-- 
void main () {

    if version = "Vista" {
      call slow_by_half();
      call DRM_everything();
    }
    call functional_code();
  }
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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