
There are even malware authors that put their scripts in the registry to avoid detection by security software because their malware is fileless. The registry's also bloated, over-complicated, in large parts undocumented, and when it comes to software developers, unregulated - anyone can add whatever they want to the registry, pretty much wherever they want to add it, for whatever purpose they desire.

Watching the lines flow by in the window, it's plain to see why someone would want that registry as optimized as possible.ĭocsmicrosoftcom/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/

Fire it up & you'll see the thousands & thousands of times it accesses the registry in just minutes. SysInternals has a small app called Process Monitor that logs everything Windows is doing behind the scenes when it's running.
