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Registry

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

The Windows Mobile registry stores data about applications, drivers, user preferences, and other configuration settings. Windows Mobile implements the registry as a hive-based registry stored in files.

The registry is also used for system initialization. The registry can be loaded from and stored to another persistent storage device. The registry can exist as a file on any file system.

In This Section

  • Registry Overview
    Provides information about the organization of the registry, the types of registry you can select for a target device, and user profiles.
  • Registry Operations
    Provides information about how to programmatically manage the registry, and discusses options for registry flushing.

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Other Resources

File Systems and Storage Management