Do Not Register Strings As REG_BINARY

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Best Practice   (Designed for Microsoft® Windows® Logo)

Installers and applications should store string data as separate REG_SZ, REG_MULTI_SZ, or REG_EXPAND_SZ values instead of embedding such strings as REG_BINARY data in the registry.

Remarks

This best practice helps resolve ANSI to Unicode conversion issues when upgrading a computer running Microsoft Windows 98 to future versions of Microsoft Windows NT®.