Once upon a time, way back in computer history, the developers of Microsoft MS-DOS - the first widespread usage operating system for PCs - had to choose how to deal with the issue of Job Management. All Operating Systems need job management, task management, and data management as key elements. Again, operating systems are all composed of three elements or sub-systems - Job Management, Task Management, and Data Management.
Job Management controls the allowance, selection, permission-to-execute and allocation of resources to organized groups of programs - called Jobs - that achieve an overall function or task-set. Task Management controls tasks and data management controls data. If any one of these elements is missing - well then you don’t really have an operating system…you just have stuff.
When the developers of DOS got to Job Management, they decided to leave it out - assuming that the control of access to jobs on a personal computer would take place in the mind of its owner. This lightbulb was lit by the simple acknowledgement that job management was unnecessary on a personal computer since only an idiot would run something he didn’t really want to run. Voila! No Job Management was included in MS-DOS. That blundering idiocy you are still paying for my friends - in the form of Viruses - for you see everything in DOS (which is still the heart or kernel of all Microsoft Operating Systems) is simply a file - of Code or Data. If it is data it is held for control access by a running job or program; if it is Code (meaning a software program) IT EXECUTES WITHOUT ANY QUESTION AS TO ITS PERMISSION-TO-EXECUTE OR ITS VALIDITY TO EVEN BE REQUESTING IT. This is how viruses are allowed to run without your knowledge or approval and you only need a way to get them onto your computer - like piggybacked email - to get that done. You have the founders of Microsoft to thank for that.
Well we started this article under the pretext of explaining something about the Microsoft Windows System Registry - what it is, how it originated and - like most things that really count in the murky world of Microsoft - how it became degraded, overused and under-maintained. Okay, here goes.
In the 90’s, when it became clear the some kind of job management was necessary, once again Microsoft chose to deal with it ‘some other time’. This is obviously a repeat performance for these guys, right? Okay, well they still needed to deal with the ever-growing requirement to be able to control both access parameters and all the other data controls that are necessary to both launch and properly execute and run complex applications.
They chose to create a simple file system to both record and serve these needs. It became known as the system Registry. Since they didn’t properly provide for its maintenance it grew into the mess it is today, targeted by every software hacker as well as legitimate software vendor for all their unhandled job management needs. MICROSOFT CORPORATION PROVIDES NO MAINTENANCE CAPABILITY FOR THIS FILE. THEREFORE, YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO MAINTAIN IT - I.E CLEANSE IT OF CORRUPT, REDUNDANT, AND ERRANT ENTRIES. Your only option for this maintenance, unless you are a qualified programmer - is to buy a product called registry software. With it you can do a registry fix and finalize your registry repair.
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Author Resource:-> James Roberts is Senior Article Editor for What-Why-How researching and writing on numerous topics including how to use registry software and best ways to fix registry that work fast!
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