Does windows 7 still work on the same lines in keeping registry entries and not protect windows/system and windows/system32 directory or did theyhave a better security. Personally I hate registry concept - it sucks. How does the browser IE work now? Is it the same for exploring the files and a browser as well? Unless these rasping issues are resolved whether it is Windows 7 or any other Windows OS it is in my opinion a big big big failure even though it has more functions and new look. What big difference it make? It is killer.

UAC and IE protected mode do still add a great deal of security layers that Windows XP doesn't have. For every time that someone lays out the arguments that the registy needs to be killed off, one needs to step back and look at the ecosystem of software and development. It's easy to say 'rip it out' but as a person using line of business software I'll say "hang on, not so fast". It's not trivial for me to rip out and replace all of my functioning software.I think it's a bit simplistic and naive to say it needs to be chucked out and sucks.What has changed is better acls on the registry, attention to users folders being more segregated for security purposes and kicking our butts and that of our application developers to stop demanding administrator rights.'Nix has it's .conf folder that can be it's achilles heel as well.

The differences between UNIX configuration files and the Windows registry are manyfold. For example, UNIX configuration files are just simple text files that live in a well-known, standard place, that can be easily editedusing any editor (from a working system or a recovery LiveCD), modified, backed up, etc, whereas Windows registry consists of a few binary files that are less flexible to manage.I will concede if you speak of GNOME's own implementation of the registry: GConf. It's one of the worst mistakes GNOME developers did: trying to emulate the old and brain-dead Windows registry system.