It's what sysadmins are paid for.
“I didn’t even get into the fact that they’re registry hacks, good ol’ MS and their love of registry hacks.” All you have done so far, is regurgitating mindless anti-Microsoft taking points from the internet, without even knowing whast they mean.
Sounds to me like you don't have a clue about anything, let alone registry hacks.
Registry hacks are annoying. And people shouldn’t have to use them to get rid of a stupid dialog.