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Microsoft - Registry.exe |
The Registry process is used to hold Software and User Registry data to utilize memory management capabilities and, in the future, reduce the memory usage of the Registry. This means as Windows looks up commonly used settings it can access this data faster becuase it's readily stored available in this process.
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