>I am using VFP6 (will soon be VPF7) and have never used the registry with our application. I would like to store some settings there e.g. password, and the number of trial day the application will run. Our users of the software are not very computer literate.
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>If I store a value after the application has been installed then the application is uninstalled will the entry be removed?
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>Windows ME and XP have a system restore feature if I write a value to the registry from our app then the user uses the system restore will it remove the entry made?
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>How common is it for an entry to become corrupted say if the computer froze and the user turned it off?
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>My main concern is that the benefits I gain will be out weighed by the problems but as I said I have never used the registry and I hope I'm wrong.
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>Any comment are most welcome.
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>Thanks
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>John

John,
You could easliy use the registry.
However if your users are not kinda hackers (same with registry approach) you could write an encrypted (or not) file to a common folder (ie:windir\system) more easily.
Cetin