Windows Registry limitations

[Guest]

Hi all,
My customer wants various informations about windows server 2003 registry.
One is: there is a maximum number limit on registry entries (in its case
DWORD) for a single key or subkey? The numbert of entries it wants to add in
a single key is about 3200.
Do you know if there is a KB or Technet Docs that explain it?
Thanks in advance.

Andrea T.

 

[Mark F.]

Hi all,
My customer wants various information about windows server 2003 registry.
One is: there is a maximum number limit on registry entries (in its case
DWORD) for a single key or subkey? The number of entries it wants to add in
a single key is about 3200.
Do you know if there is a KB or Technet Docs that explain it?
Thanks in advance.

Andrea T.

These pages may have your answer.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292726&sd=RMVP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/124594/

 

[Mark F.]

Hi all,
My customer wants various information about windows server 2003 registry.
One is: there is a maximum number limit on registry entries (in its case
DWORD) for a single key or subkey? The number of entries it wants to add in
a single key is about 3200.
Do you know if there is a KB or TechNet Docs that explain it?
Thanks in advance.

Andrea T.

Andrea,

I pondered your post _after_ posting my response. What struck me odd is
the number of entries in the registry that this person is considering.
3200 entries? Having written applications which read and write registry
data I find this a lot.

It's been widely debated that the Windows Registry concept (IMO) was a
bad idea in the first place. It is essentially a database for
information regarding the system and applications. There are a lot of
programs that bloat the registry as it is, and Microsoft being one of
the worst offenders.

If this person is working on an application, and needs to store that
much data in the registry I would suggest another method. Perhaps (local
folder) binary data files.

IMHO.
Mark