Registry Has a Redundant Folder

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In this key,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
I have two \CurrentVersion folders.

That is, you see this
....\Windows\CurrentVersion
\CurrentVersion

The first CurrentVersion listed is something like this
\App Management
\App Paths
..
..
..
\Control Panel\Extended Properties\{305CD8K-P93BK-YI3...} 2
this contains many %systemRoot%\system32\xxxxx.cpl entries
..
..
another 37 folders
..
..


The second \CurrentVersion contains only one subfolder, \Control Panel

\Control Panel\Extended Properties\{305CD8K-P93BK-YI3...} 2
this contains one entry %SystemRoot%\system32\NicConfigSvc.cpl
This probably is the network card configuration applet.

Question: How is it possible to have two subfolders, within the same
folder, named exactly the same? You can't do that in the File Explorer
world. Is the registry different in this respect, or is this a
corruption that has no effect on my machine?


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