Um, the registry is an integral part of Windows. Lots of built in components read and write to it constantly. Fire up Process Monitor and you will quickly notice that there is lots of boilerplate registry accesses that go on that applications don't specifically perform (for example, if a program launches another program, Windows checks to see if there is an override in place for which application should actually be launched... in the registry). Registry access is a completely normal part of Windows, and is not a sign of a poorly written program.

I am also not sure where you get a write of the registry creates a fork. All I can think of is that there is the Previous Versions system which will back up previous versions of files, thus creating "forks". I am not sure if it is enabled for the registry (not sure how useful it would be, System Restore creates backups itself and Previous Versions is meant for user files) but even if it does only one copy would be loaded and actively used at once.

The only other thing you could be referring to AFAIK is Registry Virtualization. Legacy applications may have registry writes redirected for compatibility reasons (when NOT running as admin), but those go to a different location in the same registry; it doesn't create copies of the registry to store these redirected writes.

Of course as you create more registry cruft from installing more applications things COULD slow down in various ways unrelated to the performance of the registry. Most likely is you'll see Windows Explorer slow down as it interoperates with third-party components a great deal, and thus there is ample opportunity for broken components to cause delays or timeouts in things like right-click menus. The only thing the registry has to do with this is Explorer reads configurations on how to use third-party components from there. When people talk about "fixing the registry" it's usually in cleaning up the mess broken third-party components have left, and not any performance issues in the registry itself.

I had this problem all the time with XP but I have not noticed it since I installed Windows 7 over 5 years ago on my current PC. The only problem I have now is that the WinSxS folder is gigantic, likely due to all the Windows Update patches over time. My poor SSD. Windows 10 claims to use "3GB" as a minimal requirement, we'll see how that holds up (I expect not well at all) but Windows 8/8.1 supposedly cut down on used disk space by the OS a bit so I'm optimistic for now.

Apologies, I forgot MSDN requires you to sign into your Microsoft account to view their documentation. It's kinda dumb.

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ON ERROR RESUME NEXT

caused by dividing by zero returning zero.

Or if you're rooted you can just uninstall the keyboard.

I think you mean second thing is to import your browser profile from your old PC (including adblock plus).

Full uninstall does not fix it. The message crashes Skype just by being in your chat history. Your chat history is stored in the cloud so you can't delete it!

The only person who can delete it is the sender (assuming they didn't crash themselves). So if it was malicious you're screwed until MS fixes the bug and pushes out an update for the client over Windows Update (at least the good news is they can do this, now).

The people selling us devices with these chips may see the convenient planned obsolescence as a huge upside.

That is also the easiest way for them to stop making money.

Otherwise known as... an ad blocker!

Starbucks probably removes the balance once they are informed of the theft, but by then the thieves are long gone with their money so they don't care.

I turned comments off, myself. Wordpress will update itself nowadays, at least for minor updates.

You should put the PHP script on a copy of your website that you only serve to 360. It would seem to be a tactic they approve of.