• SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Don’t forget that appdata nowadays has 3 sub folders, local, locallow, and roaming.

    Also there’s C:\programdata

    Also some programs just store it in the user folder, the documents folder, or games/ my games folder if they are a game.

      • SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Oooh the registry is even more fun.

        • HKLM, HKCU? These are statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged
        • Store it in software, make your own root folder
        • Also for 32 bit programs there wow6432node
        • There’s also the policies section, but this kind of makes sense to have it split off
        • Also make sure to follow the apple methodology of having multiple different key names like Apple, Apple inc., etc
        • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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          8 months ago

          I still have no idea why HK is in front… why is the key hot 🤔… and what key are we talking about…

          Oh, yeah, and the different key names… Windows, Windows NT (WITH a white space…), Win…

          • dan@upvote.au
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            8 months ago

            HKEY means “handle to registry key”… Not that that helps anything.

            When code opens a file, device, etc, it’s given a “handle” to it, which is an internal reference so that Windows knows which file you’re reading or writing, and it keeps track of where you are in the document. Similarly, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is the handle that gives you the current user part of the registry.