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		pluc on Sept 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: KSP2 is spamming the Windows Registry until the ga... Is it common to use the registry essentially as a database? 300mb is way more than I expected that thing to support in a single key, but I admittedly know nothing about Windows. I've only ever seen it used to store booleans or simple string values.

thefifthsetpin on Sept 26, 2023 [–]

I just exported the registry on my personal windows machine to see. It was 400 MB as a .reg file and zipped down to less than a tenth of that.

I'm not sure what's common, but clearly not many programs are dumping large data into my registry.

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