SQL like wrapper for Windows Registry?

Question

The per key handling of updating the registry seems a bit poor when dealing with large volumes of data. Are there any libraries that would treat all keys as tables and allow INSERTS, UPDATES, or SELECTS in a more programmatic fasion?

Answer 1

WMI might help, see this MSDN page.

Answer 2

WMI offers access to the registry and has a SQL like language called WQL.

Answer 3

If you want do do scripting windows powershell has some quite nifty registry access. It handles the registry as if it were a filesystem.