• Registry

    Noun

    registry

    (plural registries)
    1. A building in which things are registered or where registers are kept.
    2. A record; an account; a register.
    3. The act of registering; registration.
    4. (computing) A database of configurations etc. maintained by the Microsoft Windows operating system.
      • 1999, John Papa, ‎C. Caison, ‎Matt Brown, Professional ADO RDS programming with ASP (page 252)To unregister a DLL and remove the corresponding entries from the registry, add the /u switch to the command...

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