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LOLz in Windows XP registry, I've got a little over half a megabyte of custom registry tweaks that I've carefully crafted for Windows XP systems, to streamline it to the max, lock it down and make it about as private as humanly possible. Almost a whole megabyte if you count my MicroXP specific tweaks.
I even made sure to disable Terminal Services, Background Intelligent Transfer Services, Automatic Updates, File and Printer Sharing, and basically any useless service that anyone in their sane mind should disable if still using XP for whatever reason (mostly virtual machine use here).
Anything past XP in a VM for legacy software, I'm running Linux Mint MATE as my actual daily runner.
Still funny you'd say that seasoned Windows users never tweak the registry, I ate it up and spit out the whole system configuration the way I wanted.
Well, XP was generally less complex, and rarely had any problems in my opinion. I personally think registry edits got riskier past XP up until 10...When it became a bigger gamble (especially using Vista,7,8).
I opted for Pro version and local policy was the safer option. I guess my experience was WAY different. Could be hardware or a few mistyped entries, little bit of both, I suppose.
My basic registry philosophy, aside from the obvious do a lotta fuckin research was to track all the default settings, configure everything the way I want, and save all the registry values for the settings I changed.
My bigger registry philosophy was to research all the possible values under major registry keys, even hidden ones not available as any convenient Control Panel GUI option. Configure all that to my liking as well, and backup my entire configuration. Well, whatever differs from defaults anyways.
Then, whenever I'd install XP on another system, I could just import a small handful of registry files and have 99.9℅ of everything already configured my way.
I could easily merge all that into a single registry file, but I broke it down into major basic categories, like Interface, Services, etc..
I certainly tried my best with the research part and often succeeded on XP more than any other Windows version. I think it was a bit overwhelming for me at the time because I somewhat understood computers, needed human language to demystify the kind computers could use for specific modifications and tasks. I am starting to reach that point with Linux, I didn't get there 100% with Windows, knew just enough to get by.
Yeah, not having registry edits is like not modifying config files on a Linux based OS, possible but you might as well be using a Chromebook