On Thu, 12 May 2016 12:43:36 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


The advantage of my DOS based database and accounting programs is they
can just be booted on any machine from a thumb drive and they run
without installing anything.

YEP
this entire concept of INSTALLING software in a registry is an issue.
Individual SW with indiviual .ini files is less prone to big problems.

Thats what the windows registry is, a gigantic .ini file for everything
I think they did it to make it harder for software piracy.



It certainly makes it harder to transfer software from one machine to
another or even to back it up without cloning your whole C: drive.