<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Japofran @ Sep 22 2007, 11:53 PM) [snapback]312555[/snapback]</div>
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sebatianos @ Sep 22 2007, 09:41 PM) [snapback]312545[/snapback]
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I'm not sure I'd want just any programe have acces to my computer registry.  [/b]
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EVERY program you run from an admin account (which is default for Windows and what 99% of people do) has full access to the registry to do as it pleases.
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I assumed (maybe falsely) that people acctually do take the bother to protect their registry. In my case my anti-virus software blocks every programe from changing the registry unless I aprove it (so I get about 12 warnings just instaling a simple game) also giving me information on what the programe is trying to do to the registry (add or change a line). But to regestry editing programes it gives free hands (so if I allow the programe to be used, it will have free access to the registry).
That's why I wouldn't like to give a programe I don't trust (which would be just about anything I'd download from the web for free) a free run of my registry. That's even why I don't use skype (the people who made Kazaa made it and it's been trying to do the same things to my registry as if I'd install Kazaa, which I removed years ago, because my PC got too vounrable for my taste).