The Windows system registry is a huge database that stores the settings and options for the Microsoft Windows operating systems. It houses all the information and settings for the computer's hardware, the operating system software, user settings and many, many other settings. In simpler terms, if you were to create a file and then copy it, and paste it elsewhere and then it was deleted - then the system registry would store all of this along the way.
The registry also shows the heart of the o...