• @hperrin
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    It could also be stored in the registry.

    • SGG
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      392 months ago

      Oooh the registry is even more fun.

      • HKLM, HKCU? These are statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged
      • Store it in software, make your own root folder
      • Also for 32 bit programs there wow6432node
      • There’s also the policies section, but this kind of makes sense to have it split off
      • Also make sure to follow the apple methodology of having multiple different key names like Apple, Apple inc., etc
      • @[email protected]OP
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        2 months ago

        I still have no idea why HK is in front… why is the key hot 🤔… and what key are we talking about…

        Oh, yeah, and the different key names… Windows, Windows NT (WITH a white space…), Win…

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          HKEY means “handle to registry key”… Not that that helps anything.

          When code opens a file, device, etc, it’s given a “handle” to it, which is an internal reference so that Windows knows which file you’re reading or writing, and it keeps track of where you are in the document. Similarly, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is the handle that gives you the current user part of the registry.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            12 months ago

            I know that, the HOTKEY_* part of it was a mystery, why is the key hot… I mean, why does HK have to stand in front of it, it could be simple like just LM, CU, U (Users… still does nothing and nothing in it gets transfered as a setting in new user accounts), CR, etc.

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              It’s HKEY (handle to key), not HOTKEY. That’s what I was trying to say in my comment. There’s no “HOTKEY”.

              • @[email protected]OP
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                12 months ago

                Huh… I don’t know where I’ve read this a long time ago, but I could swear it was HOTKEY, not HKEY… your explanation does make sense though, while what I thought never did make sense.