[samstave]

Yep. The INI files were the original ways to store config info...

The registry was the next step. What would be great is an online serve for such - a machine gets booted and it asks for your config unam UUID etc - and then just slurps your snapshot down.

[bboreham]

When I first heard about Active Directory (1998?) I thought it would work a bit like this - a distributed Registry.