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To be honest, it is quite complicated now as well with all of the proprietary software
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I still have no idea why HK is in front... why is the key hot ๐ค... and what key are we talking about...
Oh, yeah, and the different key names... Windows, Windows NT (WITH a white space...), Win...
HKEY means "handle to registry key"... Not that that helps anything.
When code opens a file, device, etc, it's given a "handle" to it, which is an internal reference so that Windows knows which file you're reading or writing, and it keeps track of where you are in the document. Similarly, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is the handle that gives you the current user part of the registry.
I know that, the HOTKEY_* part of it was a mystery, why is the key hot... I mean, why does HK have to stand in front of it, it could be simple like just LM, CU, U (Users... still does nothing and nothing in it gets transfered as a setting in new user accounts), CR, etc.
It's HKEY (handle to key), not HOTKEY. That's what I was trying to say in my comment. There's no "HOTKEY".
Huh... I don't know where I've read this a long time ago, but I could swear it was HOTKEY, not HKEY... your explanation does make sense though, while what I thought never did make sense.