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Each name entry in the Registry is accompanied by a set of properties. Each property has a name and a value. By looking at the properties associated with a name entry, software can determine what the entry identifies and what its uses are.
Software uses Registry properties to find other software. For example, if a user specifies a name while running an application, the application may look up the name in the Registry and use the properties associated with it to determine what the name represents in the system. For example, a distributed application could ask the user to choose a network interface. From the properties that accompany the name of the interface in the Registry, the application could find the device driver that controls the network interface and the parameters needed to open the network device, as diagrammed in Figure 10-1.
Figure 10-1 Using name properties
