Windows hides most of its configuration in a binary file called a registry. Special Windows tools must be used to read and modify the registry. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach as opposed to using text-based configuration files that other operating systems favor? Identify one configuration item that you could change in the registry. Solution There are so many advantages provided by the design of window registry over text based.INI files (INI is file extension for initialization file format used by Microsoft windows) used in predecessors of windows95 operating system. The disadvantages of the window registry are: There are so many advantages provided by the design of window registry over text based.INI files (INI is file extension for initialization file format used by Microsoft windows) used in predecessors of windows95 operating system. The disadvantages of the window registry are: .