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Thank you for explaining so that others can fully understand my original post that playing around with the registry will have no input in the development of this Preview O/S.Exactly. I've got some sympathy for your original point - if you change something in registry (or just refuse to test some part of the OS because you don't like it) it will make it harder for Microsoft to gain useful information. This is a valid point. If you want make a thread here called "Should we test the OS as it is?" I would answer and to some extent agree with you as there are people who say "I'm not testing xyz because it doesn't work well enough for prime-time".
Finally someone has recognised the point I was trying to make.
Your point that MS should have a section for registry changes unfortunately shows a lack of understanding of how Windows works or what the registry is. Anyone, any program, anything can write to the registry (within the limits of their authority and desire to stick to conventions).
Au contraire, I am in fact stating the opposite, that if M$ wanted members to make suggested alterations to their registry they would have included it in their insider programme topics. You have explained perfectly in your notes below why it was not included.
Do you really MS they should have a team looking at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\{7746D80F-97E0-4E26-9543-26B41FC22F79} and see if some idiot programmer from France has added some key there?
And another team looking at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins\LWA64Plugin15.8\MimeTypes?
And these teams should somehow guess what app is involved?
In case you don't get it these questions are rhetorical.
If xyz app doesn't work you log it with the xyz app team to fix. By all means add more information and any workarounds you may have found.
Logging a case saying "set HKLM/{GUID}/random_key=4 stops windows freezing" will probably will not help any developers much if they are working on abc app and have no idea what you are talking about or even who the developers of xyz app are or what it is supposed to do.