Get ready before you go into the Registry

When I started this blog I said (in the About Me page) that I'll be posting something about Windows Registry. Well although I have written one or two posts on Windows Registry I didn't writing anything much interesting till now. So I decided that this week I'll be posting more on some Registry Hacks. Before that be sure to Back up you registry so that even if some problems occur you can solve that by reverting to the original registry.

You can either backup the whole registry or only the key value you are editing. For this click on the Key value you are editing and go to File»Export here you are given two options either to export the full registry or to back up just the key you selected. The second one is more useful as you are given an ability to revert only a single change. Always make the name of the exported .REG file makes sense to what you were editing. Now if you hit a problem and decide to revert the change double click the exported file and click ok when you are asked whether to merge this with you registry.

So this was just to make sure that you are comfortable before you edit your registry. It will take you some time before you can do the editing easily after you know what all the keys and values in Registry actually represent. Be ready to experiment till then. Never fear anything after all you have got you Windows CD with you right? lol... :)

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