Saturday, July 30, 2016

Windows 10 Pro Registry Subkey Depth Frequency Distribution

Windows 10 Pro Registry Subkey Depth Frequency Distribution graph is determined by counting number of keys seperated by "\" backslashes. This also in including the hive key. Hive key is the first key in registry path and starts with KHEY, in example registy export below it's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

The subkey depth of the example exported registry path below is 8.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Windows Error Reporting System Queue Files]


The number of subkeys or registry "paths" in a new Windows 10 Pro with Office is approx. 1M. 

The average subkey depth 8.2, and largest subkey depth group of 6 at 233,583 and a standard deviation of 2.510586.


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