

(Although file read/writes would often wait for user idle times before flushing to disk.)įor example, data changes within the Windows 7 registry tended to be *either* system-wide (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) *or* per user (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) but not usually both. IMO previous versions of Windows were just a tad more restrained about registry activity and tended to react specifically to user actions rather than just read/write continously. If you look at Windows 10 registry (and file) read/writes using Process Monitor you’ll see almost continuous data events. Here’s a few reasons based on my own observations using the Registry Editor and TechNet/Sysinternal‘s Process Monitor over many years: A question was asked in another thread about why registry cleaners were especially bad with Windows 10.
