[rolph]

if i spent all day tweaking peoples registries, only to find that they are not backed up to be restored when you desire a sane configuration uuum, "pissed off" would not even begin to approach describing the emotional carnage evoked.

I get the hunch MS is set on controlling the users configuration at all times. On the flipside i remember the hell of restore point trojans, and perhaps this is MS best go at mitigating a currently guesstimated threat that is coming?

[cwyers]

> if i spent all day tweaking peoples registries, only to find that they are not backed up to be restored when you desire a sane configuration uuum, "pissed off" would not even begin to approach describing the emotional carnage evoked.

Step one to editing the Registry is _stop editing the Registry._

[inlined]

Hell, registry tweaking can be so dangerous that Windows keeps a copy of important keys for the last known good boot. That’s what “safe mode” is: it uses that key instead of the current one.