A value in
one key will almost always have a different meaning than the
same value in a different key.
There are times, however, when you??™ll need to duplicate a
key and all its contents (such as a file type key), which is
something you can do with Registry patches, described later
in this chapter.
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To add a new key or value, select New from the Edit menu, select what type
of object you want to add (Figure 3-2), type a name, and press Enter.
You can create a value (or key) almost anywhere in the Registry
and by any name and type that suits your whim. However,
unless Windows or an application is specifically
designed to look for the value, it will be ignored, and your
addition will have absolutely no effect.
So far, the Registry Editor should seem pretty straightforward. But you??™ll
find that the hard part is that you can??™t change something in the Registry
until you know what to change, and that??™s what the rest of this chapter is
about.
First, the Registry Editor has a Search feature (Edit ??? Find or press Ctrl-F),
but you??™ll quickly find that it pretty much sucks. See ???Search the Registry,???
later in this chapter, for search tips, as well as better search tools you can
use. There??™s also ???Find the Registry Key That Does...,??? which is useful if
you don??™t know what to search for. But as I said earlier, the stuff in the Registry
is basically location-dependent, which means you need to be
acquainted with the structure of the Registry before you??™ll know where to go
to make a specific change.
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