To see it, click here. It is called the Adobe – Flash Player : Settings Manager and it has several “panels”. Obscurely, the list of visited sites is in the Website Privacy Settings panel because it lists the privacy settings of all your visited sites. Full title is
Adobe – Flash Player : Settings Manager – Website Privacy Settings panel. It looks something like this:
The Windows Registry replaces .ini files. It is a place where programs store the data they need to run. Eg, configuration settings.
Some key facts to remember.
[P] – primary key
[A] – alias to some other key in the registry
[A] HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR)
HKCU\Software\Classes and machine-based HKLM\Software\Classes. If a given value exists in both of the subkeys above, the one in HKCU\Software\Classes takes precedence.[A] HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU)
HKEY_USERS that corresponds to the user; the same information is accessible in both locations[P] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM)[P] HKEY_USERS (HKU)[A] HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG (HKCC)
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles\Current" (only exists in Windows 9x/Me and NT-based versions of Windows)HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA (only in NT-based versions of Windows, but invisible in the Windows Registry Editor)HKEY_DYN_DATA (only in Windows 9x/Me, and visible in the Windows Registry Editor)The Registry is stored in hive files.
%SystemRoot% is usually c:\windows%UserProfile% is usually
c:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]c:\users\[USERNAME]HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SAM%SystemRoot%\System32\Config\SAM
SAM stands for “Security Accounts Manager”)HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SECURITY%SystemRoot%\System32\Config\SECURITYHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE%SystemRoot%\System32\Config\SOFTWAREHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM%SystemRoot%\System32\Config\SYSTEMHKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT%SystemRoot%\System32\Config\DEFAULTHKEY_USERS\[User SID] (HKEY_CURRENT_USER)%UserProfile%\NTUSER.DATHKEY_USERS\[User SID]_Classes (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes) (part of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT)%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat (path is localized)%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat (path is not localized)