The > character redirects the
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The Registry
output, which normally would be displayed right in the Command Prompt
window, into new text files: user.txt for the changes in HKEY_CURRENT_USER
and machine.txt for the changes in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
9. Examine the results. The user.txt file should look something like this:
Comparing files user1.reg and USER2.REG
***** user1.reg
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Advanced]
"Hidden"=dword:00000001
"ShowCompColor"=dword:00000000
***** USER2.REG
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Advanced]
"Hidden"=dword:00000002
"ShowCompColor"=dword:00000000
*****
From this example listing, you can see that the only applicable change
was the Hidden value, located deep in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER branch.
(There may be some other entries, but if you inspect them, you??™ll find
that they relate only to MRU lists from RegEdit and can be ignored.)*
Note that for the particular setting explained in step 5, no changes were
recorded in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE branch, so machine.txt ends up with
only the message, "FC: No differences encountered". This means that
the changes were made only to keys in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER branch.
10. The lines immediately preceding and following the line that changed
are also included by FC as an aid in locating the lines in the source files.
As luck would have it, one of the surrounding lines in this example happens
to be the section header (in brackets), which specifies the full path
of the Registry key in which the value is located.
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