[Design Question] Should I use registry or a flat file to save a program's state?

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Published on 2010-03-26T11:44:12Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 11:53 UTC
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Hi All,

We have a lot of products that are saving their "states" on the registry.

What is the best practice on saving program states? What are the advantages/disadvantages of saving program states as a registry entry or saving program states to a flat file such as XML?

Thanks!

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