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That is a design flaw that cannot be fixed without breaking the API: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190528-00/?p=10...

I'm pretty sure there are a lot of those.




Apparently nobody at Microsoft thought about the Windows registry as a database, which of course needs indexing to be performant.


They could also cache that computed menu and proactively update the cache whenever the relevant keys are changed. Either way, pretty far from "cannot be fixed without breaking the API".




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