Windows Registry Overview
Aug 20, 2025
Windows Registry
It is a hierarchical configuration Database that stores system, users, apps, and hardware information.
Let’s say you are a bookstore owner and you need a place to store all the relevant information about your business and how to run it. You buy a file cabinet and in here, you keep information like:
- Operational expenses and how to pay them.
- Employee information.
- Employee’s preferences.
- Color code of the bookstore.
- How to handle new books.
- Physical location of each genre within the store.
- Customer information.
- etc.
