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The windows registry is not a magical thing. That’s really all that dangerous. It’s just a giant central config file that you can store binary data in if you know what you’re doing. Malware can hide there too.
Agree, it's not recommended to edit the registry when you don't know exactly what you're doing, less in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, it's very easy to have to re-install the OS because of an total crash.
That’s not because the registry is important or powerful. It’s the opposite. Microsoft designs their shitty operating systems to always assume the registry is perfect. Question nothing. Everything is literal. There is no sanity checking or error handling. So if something is off about the registry, the OS will just shrug and blue screen.
Stop using windows. It’s for children.
I am very far from being a child ( I'm over 70 and I probably have grandchildren of your age) and I know very well what is expected of the operating systems. What is childish is consider a system better than others, forgetting that this is always dependent on the opinions and needs of the individual.
I have used both, Windows as well as different distros of Linux, and I know very well the advantages and limitations of both. You forget that many corporate applications and professional ones (games apart) do only exist for Windows, with alternatives poor in Linux or just work poorly with Wine or in virtual environment.
Linux certainly has many advantages over Windows, but it has a big problem of a huge amount of different distros, not always compatible with each other, being apart (still) in general a minority system, with little presence in the market, and also a presence of less the availability of software, far from the amplitude of catalogues for Windows, even in respect of FOSS and FLOSS. Linux has advantages in field-specific uses, Windows, apart from its defects, is in the global scope. It's very easy to say "use Linux" (Qu'ils mangent de la brioche) to someone who needs to use Windows for some reasons, instead of the way to get rid of the problems which he has with it.
But keep saying that the registry is of no importance, and with the following phrase that Windows stops working when something wrong is deactivated or deleted in one of the entries, just what I said before, this is childish and shows your "great knowledge" about how Windows works.
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