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registry is faster that's why Microsoft switched windows over to it(it used to be ini files)

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Even though registry might be faster i would still prefer Ini's, cause some peoples like me, hates when something tampers with the registry

Just my 2 cents

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i made script that monitors a regkey every 1 min, if its chances, it sets it back to what it mus be

what is the best to use? if its going to be done every minute

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i made script that monitors a regkey every 1 min, if its chances, it sets it back to what it mus be

what is the best to use? if its going to be done every minute

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Why would you want to monitor a single registry key? I don't know much about the registry...

However, I do use the registry for values, I prefer it because it's more likely to not be tampered with by users. I use .ini files for lists that, if they get corrupted, won't matter too much...

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@kimurtus, do not hijack posts, make your own.

@rambo3889, I'm kind of the same way, but I figure that if they don't want the software don't use it. But besides that, I'm just looking at efficiency.

If it's reasonable to use registry over ini, that's something I would be interested in investigating. I figure I'd just have to relearn a few things. Are there any real differences? ...reasons I shouldn't use registry over ini?

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It's depend on what you want to accomplish. You also might want to know that in some cases (security issues) IniWrite will not work, one case is when user will run your app without having rights to write files to hard drive (system drive for example), or he runs your app on unwritable device (CD-ROM).

And also if your program will write something rapidly to the ini-file, and it will run on USB-drive, it can do some demage to the USB-drive :).

 

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What about corrupted registry files? I've done some quick google searches and a few people have mentioned about registries getting corrupted. I know people cry Armageddon when little things happen to them, and I don't recall it happening to me, but has anyone here had experience with their registry getting corrupted?

I don't expect people to put this app on a USB drive or CD-Drive.

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has anyone here had experience with their registry getting corrupted?

Well, yes, registry can be corrupted, but thinking that way you will never find a perfect solution :)

One more tip: If you want to store some setting about your app, better store them as default values inside the script, so if something from outside is corrupted, your app will still work (with default settings)...

Something like that:

...
$Default_Title = "My Default Title"
$Title_Settings = IniRead("Config.ini", "Main Prefs", "App Title", $Default_Title)
If $Title_Settings = "" Then $Title_Settings = $Default_Title
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i made script that monitors a regkey every 1 min, if its chances, it sets it back to what it mus be

what is the best to use? if its going to be done every minute

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i would use the one with the if statement. less cpu usage :)
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@MsCreatoR

Why did you do that code that way instead of just

$Title_Settings = IniRead("Config.ini", "Main Prefs", "App Title", "Whatever")

?

It seems like unnecessary coding unless there is something I don't know.

I think I'm going to stick with ini, since no one has given any real reason to use registry that would apply to this apps environment. I did a quick unscientific test and the ini and registry both save the same amount of data as fast as each other(around 80 values----I didn't do a read and set test.).

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