What options do I have for storing information on Windows? How should I read this information? <p>what options I have for storing information on Windows?</p> <p>I was thinking of creating a file or working with the registry but the file could get rather annoying to handle if it gets too big and the registry is a bit too easily accessible by the user.</p> <p>I don't expect there to be more than a max of 100 entries and they would look something like this.</p> <p><em>John Banana</em></p> <p><em>Marcus Apple</em></p> <p>etc.</p> <p>I realize this wouldn't produce a too big file but I dont want to parse it everytime I need the information. I was thinking of reading the information into the application on startup but wouldn't that create performance issues? Or perhaps it's so little it wouldn't matter except for older computers? Are there any other options? Perhaps I could encrypt the information and put it in the registry? Is the registry suitable for putting multiple entries such as this?</p> <p><em>Note that when I program I sometimes go a bit too overboard when it comes to making things efficient. Excuse my ignorance.</em></p>