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Ugh, the registry was etc but strictly worse. You must use a specialized, and might I add insanely crappy, tool to edit it, it can be corrupted, there is only one so you can't swap out a registry with certain features for another, the list goes on. The registry deserves every bit of guff it ever got.

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I've got multiple Registry editing tools:

Regedit - which has an OK UI.

Powershell - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315270.aspx

WMI - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394600(v=vs.85).a...

And different Hives live in different places. The user Hives live in each user's profile folder, so that part gets swapped out depending on whose security context you're in.

> Ugh, the registry was etc but strictly worse.

Really? On which versions of Windows does the registry include executables critical to system function?

On which UNIX-like does /etc contain executables critical to system function?

Don't know if they've changed it since OpenBSD 5.2, but /etc is very critical there.

E.g. man page synopsys for just two programs:

   /etc/rc - command scripts for system startup
   /etc/netstart - command script for network startup

There are countless others there. /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, etc (pun intended).

SunOS certainly did, Solaris does, AIX has at various points... probably the majority of Unix variants, in fact.

Linux, /etc/init.d/ or /etc/rc.d/init.d/

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