When - and why - should you store data in the Windows Registry?

Question

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

Answer 1

Settings that you want to have available in a user's roaming profile should probably go in the registry, unless you actually want to go to the effort of looking for the user's Application Data folder by hand. :-)