8. Click the Replace button to perform the search and replace.
Even if you don??™t use the search-and-replace feature, Registry Agent is a pretty
slick searching tool, as it overcomes the annoying hunt-and-peck approach of
the Registry Editor??™s Search feature and ends up being much faster, too.
Find the Registry Key That Does. . .
So, now you know how to change an item in the Registry, but how do you
find which item to change?
Sometimes it??™s obvious. Say you want to reduce the time it takes to load
your favorite application, and it occurs to you that maybe you could disable
the program??™s splash screen (the friendly logo you stare at while the program
loads, which takes time to load itself). Sure enough, there??™s a value
called ShowSplashScreen in the application??™s Registry key in HKEY_Current_
User\Software. Set it to 1 (one) to turn it on, or 0 (zero) to turn it off.
Zero and one, with regard to Registry settings, typically
mean false and true (or off and on), respectively. However,
sometimes the value name negates this??”if the value in the
example were instead called DontShowSplashScreen, then a 1
(one) would most likely turn off the feature.
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Other times it??™s not so easy. You might see a long, seemingly meaningless
series of numbers and letters, or perhaps nothing recognizable at all.
Although there are no strict rules as to how values and keys are named or
how the data therein is arranged, there??™s a trick you can use to uncover how
a particular setting??”any setting??”is stored in the Registry.
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