Comments on: More Registry Stuff http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2004/10/11/more-registry-stuff/ Daily posts of Excel tips…and other stuff Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ross http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2004/10/11/more-registry-stuff/#comment-2416 ross Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:07:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=804#comment-2416 <p>When I first got into VBA, I read about writing to the reg., I tried it out, but I have never really need to use it. Can anyone suggest a situation where you would and the advantages over other methods? </p> <p>There is a saying in the Linux community, "He who messes with root, kills trees". I personally like to stay a way from the notoriously f##ked up windows registry, but in modern day computing you can't really help it. Spy wear etc, just loves digging in here, you end up deleting stuff you know nothing about and be for you know where you are, you systems beggared! Last night i spent 3 hours fix a mate PC, 'cus he ran MSCONFIG, and balls it up! I'm not telling him about REGEDIT!!!!!</p> When I first got into VBA, I read about writing to the reg., I tried it out, but I have never really need to use it. Can anyone suggest a situation where you would and the advantages over other methods?

There is a saying in the Linux community, “He who messes with root, kills trees”. I personally like to stay a way from the notoriously f##ked up windows registry, but in modern day computing you can’t really help it. Spy wear etc, just loves digging in here, you end up deleting stuff you know nothing about and be for you know where you are, you systems beggared! Last night i spent 3 hours fix a mate PC, ‘cus he ran MSCONFIG, and balls it up! I’m not telling him about REGEDIT!!!!!

]]> By: Dave Engle http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2004/10/11/more-registry-stuff/#comment-2415 Dave Engle Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:23:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=804#comment-2415 <p>Nice to see the reference to euchre. Michigan transplants living in California rarely get much euchre exposure!</p> Nice to see the reference to euchre. Michigan transplants living in California rarely get much euchre exposure!

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