marylyn27
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How To Work With Registry With Regedit?
hi again...i've been told that, generally speaking, i should never touch my Registry using the regedit program. but i'm slowly becoming knowledgeable and would like to learn more about regedit and when/why/how i might use it. isn't most of the "fiddling" with Windows done using the msconfig applet (autoexec.bat, config.sys, win.ini, etc.? thank you!
Win98 make a backup of the registry everytime it boots up "normal" and by default keeps the last five backups for you. You can change the number of backups Windoze keeps (by using REGEDIT and changing a setting) but for most people 5 is enough. What I am trying to get at is if you happen to make a mistake (if you are careful you shouldn't) then you can restore an earlier backup.
Tweakui is a program that lets you "Safely" edit the registry. It is part of the resource kit.
You would not normally use regedit without knowing up front what you want to do and how to do it. This knowledge could come from:
A knowledgable support person.
An article from a reputable magazine.
An "expert" (from here on EE or elsewhere)
A good book on registry tweaks.
A MS TechNet article.
Instructions in a hardware or software manual.
To learn yourself, try searching the MicroSoft Knowledge Base for "regedit".
Bert
You would not normally use regedit without knowing up front what you want to do and how to do it. This knowledge could come from:
A knowledgable support person.
An article from a reputable magazine.
An "expert" (from here on EE or elsewhere)
A good book on registry tweaks.
A MS TechNet article.
Instructions in a hardware or software manual.
To learn yourself, try searching the MicroSoft Knowledge Base for "regedit".
Bert
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teach yourself windows registry by Jerry Honeycut Jr. Easy to read and understand. Worth the money!
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dtsupns 2/02/00
Welcome to the site, you are new here and should follow the unwritten protcol which is to only post answers for questions that you know is the only answer, also NEVER use as part of your answer anything that someone else has posted in a comment.
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marylyn27
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