Do it the Mac way. Standardized XML format (property lists) stored in a standard location (~/Library/Application Support/ApplicationName). Each app has its own file to work with, and completely removing an app and its detritus is as simple as trashing the folders.
The registry was a bad idea from the start. I imagine MS wants to get rid of it, but it has become too entrenched and backwards compatibility requires it to still be around.
Not really a surprise though. All the things I've read about Prevx come to just marketing their shit, somewhat like Symantec is. Not really a surprise they'll make shit statements like this and then just 'sorry' afterwards.
So she has apparently decoded a manuscript written in a language she does not read (medieval Italian) does not know what a medieval herbal looks like, is not a botanist, a linguist or anything else that would be helpful to decoding a medieval manuscript of any kind
For her next trick she will disprove Einstein, and prove the world is flat
Oh, by the way-- Einstein WAS wrong
I'm a little fuzzy on who you put in power once the warlords are out. And even if you find someone how they're supposed to maintain control without resorting to warlord tactics.
I'm not pretending to have a solution, but glib pronouncements on the evils of piracy and warlordship doesn't offer anything either.
At least it didn't divide the world into a red half and a blue half.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. - Kahlil Gibran