Locating Registry Data

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The registry is dauntingly large and labyrinthine. A particular key that you need to see or modify can easily be nested some five or six subkeys deep within a predefined key. Whether you know the path to it or not, the quickest way to get where you want to go might be to use Registry Editor's Find Key command, a fixture of the View menu. Note that the Find Key command searches only those branches inferior to the current selection, so if you're not sure which predefined key the item you want lives in, you might need to exercise the command more than once.

Be aware, though, that because the registry is so large, a search through an entire predefined key might take a while, even on a fast computer. So don't make your searches more extensive than necessary. If you know the key you want is somewhere within HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software, for example, you can save yourself some time by starting your search at the Software key rather than at the root of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES.

Registry Editor's Find Key command finds only keys. You can't use it to search for values. If you need to search for a value, run Regedit.exe instead. The Find command, located on that program's Edit menu, lets you search for values as well as keys.



Running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
ISBN: 1572318384
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 317

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