Regedit and Regedt32

Microsoft has provided two different editors to view and manipulate the Windows system registry: Regedit and Regedt32.

Regedit provides the basic functionality necessary to view and make some alterations to the system registry. The user interface is fashioned in the classic explorer-style view (splitter windows with tree view on the left and list view on the right) as shown in Figure 8.1.

Figure 8.1. The Regedit user interface.

Regedt32 does nearly everything that Regedit does and more. The user interface is fashioned in the classic MDI style, as shown in Figure 8.2. Each key can be opened as a separate MDI child window. ...

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