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Since the actualization of Windows 95, the abstraction of the anthology has been redefined. The anthology is the amount of a Windows operating system. In it abounding ambit are set so that it can ascendancy anon the startup action of Windows, the accession of the accouterments disciplinarian and the accustomed active of the program. If the anthology has been destroyed, the startup affairs will be afflicted and added seriously, the arrangement may even be paralyzed, so it’s actual important for a user to apperceive something about the registry. 

1 The Structure of the Registry

The anthology has 6 basis keys that equals to the 6 partitions in a harder disk. All of these basis keys are prefixed with HKEY_. It seems the 6 basis keys are paralleled and accept no links with anniversary other. Actually, the abstracts stored in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG are locations of the abstracts stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. While the abstracts stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER is a allotment of the abstracts stored in HKEY_USERS. The abstracts stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE contains all the abstracts stored in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Every time if the arrangement starts, the abstracts in HKEY_CURRENT_USER will be reflected by the arrangement so that the user can analysis and adapt the data.

2 The Functions of the 6 Basis Keys

HKEY_USERS

In this basis key, all the user-specific abstracts appropriate by the arrangement and the appliance are kept.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER

It food the advice of the bounded user, including the username and the password. If the user logs in Microsoft Windows, the advice will be affected from HKEY_USERS to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG

In this key, some abstracts about the accepted desktop configuration, such as the adviser configuration, the printer configuration, the final acclimated book account and the accession advice of the accepted arrangement are stored.