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Originally Posted by Katsunami
You can reach the function by right-clicking the Start-button and choosing Computer Management. I've been doing it from the This PC shortcut however, since a very long time. While I can just change that habit of course, I'm adverse to having options taken away that have been there for like... 15 (?) years.
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You can't recreate the shortcut? No idea why it disappeared from the laptop, but you ought to be able to put it back.
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Call me crazy, but I liked it when Windows, and programs, had their own ini-files in their folders. Easy to back up before you change anything, able to be changed with any text editor, even outside the OS or application, and if something went REALLY wrong you could often just delete the ini-file and the program would make a new one with the defaults. (Don't know if Windows did.)
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Many programs still do have their own ini files or the equivalent.
Backup and restore were easy enough. The trick was remembering where they all were.
Lots of folks were unhappy about the Windows Registry, where everything got stored in a hierarchal database that requires a special tool to view and manipulate. The nice thing about ini files is that they were plain text and could be diddled by your editor of choice.
One thing I'm looking at here is putting at least some of that stuff up under a Software Configuration Management system. Won't work for the registry, which is a binary blob (four, in fact, one for each hive), but will work fine for text based config files.
Lots of things these days make use of SQLite, a public domain SQL compliant DBMS implemented as a single library. For example, Firefox stores bookmarks and history in a places.sqlite DBMS, and uses SQLite elsewhere, too.
The folks who make SQLite have an SCM called
Fossil. It looks like it might be quite applicable.
A first target would be Firefox's prefs.js, since I do a lot of browser fiddling.
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Dennis