[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. This helps resolve ANSI to Unicode conversion issues when upgrading a computer running Windows 95 to future versions of Windows NT.