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Using process monitor to track registry changes

I'd like to learn how to effectively use Process Monitor to track changes to the registry as they're happening. Specifically, I need to find the registry values that change when the "Override Automatic Cookie Handling" and "Always Allow Session Cookies" settings are changed. Thanks to an expert on this site I now know which values are changed, but I'd like to know how he arrived at this.

I poked around in Process Monitor a little today and was able to get so far but I need a little further explanation. I configured two filters to filter by process name and the other to filter by operation. The process name I'm filtering is iexplore.exe and the operation is RegSetValue. With these two filters, I'm able to narrow down the results down to a manageable level, but there still seems to be some extra output.

The required registry values are all under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\3" and are the following:

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"{AEBA21FA-782A-4A90-978D-B72164C80120}"
"{A8A88C49-5EB2-4990-A1A2-0876022C854F}"

However, if you view the attached file you'll see the extra registry values (some are even listed twice, which I don't understand). My question is how to eliminate the extraneous results and narrow it down to what's needed?
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Try filtering on just the path value for the desired registry key. You may see multiple entries if the same key is queried or written to more than once during the monitoring window.
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