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Because of the complexity of a PC system, with its OS components, software, apps, hardware, and drivers, the Registry can swell to a significant size. On my own PC, as I sit and write this, the Registry files are over 225MB combined. If you wanted to open these files in a text editor, such as Windows Notepad, they would take a long time and be very complex indeed.
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Halsey, M., Bettany, A. (2015). Registry Tools and Utilities. In: Windows Registry Troubleshooting. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0992-9_2
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