[naikrovek]

this happens a lot. A LOT. not this exactly, but I know a lot of people who keep .reg files for "fixing Windows bullshit" on a new system, which they built up when Windows XP or Windows 2000 was new.

Of course, a lot of those "fixes" now break things, because the underlying workings of windows changes a lot, but every last person I know who uses these has very odd problems with Windows that I have never once seen myself.

a lot of these things that only experts knew how to do 20 years ago are now the causes of very odd problems, because these folks don't bother to verify that these registry settings are still the correct way to make the intended changes.