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SPICE-E BACoN (UDTQ#104) - That’s not a Hive!

Happy Tuesday, folks!

The Recap:

Yesterday’s question topic featured many doggo and catto pictures, so if you missed it, go check it out! The question asked about the file that holds a tree of registry keys and the answer we were looking for is “a Hive” which around 75% of you correctly chose! For anyone unfamiliar with this (odd, if you don’t know the story behind it) term, go check out Raymond Chen’s Old New Thing blog post from August 8, 2003 here or his article from 2009 explaining why Microsoft never changed the now confusing terms for the registry here.

Click to view yesterday's results

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The Ramble:

On Thursday, I asked about what title I should give these posts going forward. A few folks pointed out that me changing the name made it more difficult to find your daily question. We had a poll to determine what the name would be going forward, and BACoN won, but I really liked @frankitup 's idea here so I’m going to post another poll below the question with a new option (and the best ranked options from the last poll.)

The Real Question:

I seem to have distracted everyone with doggos well enough that there weren’t any comments on having a “registry week” so we’re going to keep it rolling for now! :stuck_out_tongue:

Although it’s often presented as if it is a Hive, HKCU (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) is actually a subkey of which Hive?
  • HKLM (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
  • HKU (HKEY_USERS)
  • HKAU (HKEY_ALL_USERS)
  • HKRB (HKEY_REPOSITORY_OF_BACON)
  • I’m not sure, but I’m excited to learn more!
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Bonus Poll, round 2!

Which title should I use for future DTQs?
  • BACoN
  • SPICE
  • SPICE-E BACoN
0 voters

The Rest:

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And since you’re still reading this, don’t forget to leave me a spice-up just below this! If it’s not orange and filled-in like this → :sw_pepper: it’s not spiced up yet! It lets me know you enjoy these and gives us both points, so why not?

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It’s a space station!

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It’s too big to be a space station…

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Shouldn’t it be a Spice station?

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It’s certainly no moon!

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Only in New Zealand…

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Since no one else will…

I have a very bad feeling about this.

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Too spicy for you?

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Nope, that’s my license plate: NO MOON

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The user-specific NTUSER.DAT file is a hive that is mounted under HKU but conveniently aliased to HKCU. Multiple NTUSER.DAT files can be mounted under HKU to reflect multiple concurrent logins on the system, but HKCU reflects the current user context. Each user on the system will see their own, personal HKCU.

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SPICE-E BACoN, is that an ingredient on a Bacon Taco?

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HKRB (HKEY_REPOSITORY_OF_BACON) sounds like it would be the registry hive replacement for .bni (Baconization) files.

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Tell them if they don’t do as you wish, you’ll become angry and use your magic.

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… and don’t forget to pack the magic smoke whilst your at it. if it doesn’t work, you’ve got cover whilst you escape.

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Chewy lock in the auxiliary!!!

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