S
Stan Brown
I like the Mahjong Titans game that comes with Win 7. I play it
quite often at home, and occasionally at work -- only during a break,
of course, never during work time. I noticed that the one at work
always comes up in a smallish window that I had to enlarge, while the
one at home always comes up full screen. So I thought I'd find the
registry entry that holds the window size and location, and change
it.
Surprise! There isn't one. "jong" (allowing partial matches) doesn't
occur anywhere in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. I eventually found four .XML
files (two, and two backups) in
C:\Users\{login}\AppData\Local\Microsoft Games\Mahjong Titans
This seems like a step backward to me. In the bad old days, every
program wrote an .INI file to C:\Windows or one of its subfolders.
The Registry represented an improvement because it eliminated putting
preference files into a folder that should be just programs, it made
backing up the settings easy, and it enabled a distinction between
per-machine settings and per-user settings. But now we have separate
files again, albeit not in such a bad location. Where's the benefit?
Sure, it keeps the Registry from growing, but we've been told that
the Registry is indexed so its size doesn't matter.
quite often at home, and occasionally at work -- only during a break,
of course, never during work time. I noticed that the one at work
always comes up in a smallish window that I had to enlarge, while the
one at home always comes up full screen. So I thought I'd find the
registry entry that holds the window size and location, and change
it.
Surprise! There isn't one. "jong" (allowing partial matches) doesn't
occur anywhere in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. I eventually found four .XML
files (two, and two backups) in
C:\Users\{login}\AppData\Local\Microsoft Games\Mahjong Titans
This seems like a step backward to me. In the bad old days, every
program wrote an .INI file to C:\Windows or one of its subfolders.
The Registry represented an improvement because it eliminated putting
preference files into a folder that should be just programs, it made
backing up the settings easy, and it enabled a distinction between
per-machine settings and per-user settings. But now we have separate
files again, albeit not in such a bad location. Where's the benefit?
Sure, it keeps the Registry from growing, but we've been told that
the Registry is indexed so its size doesn't matter.