Adding a winecfg option to reflect that registry value could make things for a user much easier.
I agree. I was about to suggest the same, but I'll wait until a verdict is out on the registry patch before moving on to the user-interface component.
Here is an example: https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/HEAD:/dlls/gdi32/gdiobj.c#l610
Thank you, I also missed a RegCloseKey call. I've submitted v2.