Filtered articles: ".REG"

Filtered articles: ".REG"

Registry Tricks

Here are some pretty cool ways to work with the Windows registry.

Regedit

Start multiple instances of Regedit by appending the command-line parameter -m, e.g.: regedit -m.

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Registry Fun (Working With Hive Files)
Published by Helge Klein on 08/12/2009 | 1 Comments | 10,599 Views

Sometimes it is necessary to export/import data from or into the registry for some sort of additional processing. To this end, often regedit is used to create .REG files, which store a human-readable text interpretation of the registry content. .REG files can be edited easily with any capable text editor (even Notepad), and thus are a common way of making a collection of settings available to others.

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