• SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    7 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
      1·
      7 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
        3·
        7 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.

        • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          I know that, the HOTKEY_* part of it was a mystery, why is the key hot… I mean, why does HK have to stand in front of it, it could be simple like just LM, CU, U (Users… still does nothing and nothing in it gets transfered as a setting in new user accounts), CR, etc.

          • dan@upvote.au
            1·
            7 months ago

            It’s HKEY (handle to key), not HOTKEY. That’s what I was trying to say in my comment. There’s no “HOTKEY”.

            • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              Huh… I don’t know where I’ve read this a long time ago, but I could swear it was HOTKEY, not HKEY… your explanation does make sense though, while what I thought never did make sense.