title: When - and why - should you store data in the Windows Registry?
body: <p>As a developer, tools that store configuration/options in the registry are the bane of my life. I can't easily track changes to those options, can't easily port them from machine to machine, and it all makes me really yearn for the good old days of .INI files...</p>
  
  <p>When writing my own applications, what - if anything - should I choose to put in the registry rather than in old-fashioned configuration files, and why?</p>