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Records vs Registry - What's the difference?

records | registry |

As nouns the difference between records and registry

is that records is while registry is a building in which things are registered or where registers are kept.

records

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (record)
    • ----

    registry

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia registry) (registries)
  • A building in which things are registered or where registers are kept.
  • A record; an account; a register.
  • The act of registering; registration.
  • (computing) A database of configurations etc. maintained by the (Microsoft Windows) operating system.
  • * 1999 , John Papa, ?C. Caison, ?Matt Brown, Professional ADO RDS programming with ASP (page 252)
    • To unregister a DLL and remove the corresponding entries from the registry , add the /u switch to the command

    Related terms

    * register * registrar