wow that's harsh
personally i like programs that use xml files (kinda like ini files) to store everything in the same directory as the exe, i think that’s what most programs will be doing in the future
the registry seems like a pretty stupid idea in the first place

sooo unorganized and without standards
i hope some day no programs will use it and nothing will need an installer...other then to copy the files and put a few shortcuts

mostly for the same reason mentioned before, after reinstalling an operating system...there would be no need to reinstall and then manually configure a million different programs. another thing nice about xml files is that i can set everything the way i like it and then create a rar (kinda like a zip file....except zip is old school

) and then use that to install the program on my other computers and all will have the config i like
hksfv is such a great program i have no problem with how its set up. It’s free and it’s the best....its worth it
it would be nice if it used an xml file but if thats too hard dont bother, new features are better
if you would like to see an example check out this peer to peer file sharing program
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/
you can also get the source code (c++), it is open source... it is exactly how i would love all programs to be, it even uses more then one xml file to keep stuff more organized. one is for settings, one is for storing the queue of files to be downloaded.
for hksfv i can think of how it could work, an xml for language data, one for config data, one for cache. somethin like that