What is Registry Editor?
Registry Editor is a tool which is useful to edit or modify your computer registry. When you log on to computer registry is modified. You unknowingly change the registry through control panel or through the RUN dialog box which in turn updates the registry’s list of programs that you’ve run recently. Registry editor is one of the most powerful and dangerous tool as it affects the settings of your computer without any user interface. You make the changes in Win XP very easily which are not possible through user interface. On other hand , there is no check to verify things you changed for sanity.
You find Registry Editor with every version on Windows since 3.1. The Registry in Microsoft Windows 95 can search the registry with very simple user interface. When it comes to Windows NT 4.0 using registry editor is quite a task. Although difficult it has one of kind feature to secure operating system which includes ability to set permissions on keys and edit more advanced data types like REG_MULTI_SZ.
MS windows 2000 give you an option to switch back and forth to use editor’s unique abilities. With windows XP you have an extreme advantage where both of these editors are embedded in single program.
Now How to RUN registry editor?
To start with, you won’t find a shortcut on start menu to run registry editor. Microsoft has refrained from providing shortcut to registry editor . Also, you will not find any exhaustive document on registry editor either. Just forgot inform you that registry Editor program is also called as RegEdit in Tech world.
Regedit is in %SYSTEMROOT%, C:\Windows on every computer. To access it Click Start, Run, and type regedit to run Regedit. No, you don’t have to type the entire path here. Here’s regedit in action….
