REGISTRY

[newbee]

What is the difference between a registry and a directory?
Someone told me to delete the key, is key another word for registry?

[YODA74]

Delete what Key? you start Deleting Registry Keys your going to be in a world of S%!& who told you to do this and for what reason??

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[newbee]

I was told to delete the key for a particular application.
I did not do it. I just want to know what a key registry is and what the difference is between a registry and a directory.

[iisbob]

The registry is the " brains " of Window's; it replaces the old .ini files that were used in W3.11.

Used to have to have an .ini { initialization } file for ever program that you ran under old DOS/W3.1, the registry arranges these program " keys" in a hiearchy of hives/keys/subkeys/& values. These values can be either hexadecimal, Binary or " word ".


Before you begin editing the registry you should make a backup of it, and any keys you play with-there is a file export button on the command menu that will let you back up either an entire branch, or just one particular key.

Go to Regedit.com (http://www.regedit.com) for a good tutorial on the window's registry and some excellant tips on working in it.

WARNING monkeying around in the registry can leave you with a very expensive doorstop if you're not careful!!



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[bassman]

And a directory is basicly a folder on your system. All of the contents of a folder would be the contents of a directory. Any Sub-folders would be considered Sub-directories.
Directories would be used in a text based enviroment (DOS) whereas folders are used in a GUI. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/cool.gif

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[This message has been edited by bassman (edited 02-08-2002).]

[Vic 970]

Have you got problems ? sounds like you want to delete a prog or something.

post back with your problems or what you want to delete, and lets deal with that.

Study the registry by all means, but I shouldn't attempt any alterations yet until you have a little more experience, you'll probably end up much worse off. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif

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[Beno]

Newbee,

The registry is Windows databse of configuration information.

You can edit the registry directly - not advised or you can edit the registry indirectly using the control panel. the control panel holds lots of applets (mini programs) to edit the registry and thus change the configuration of many things including hardware and software.

The registry came about as a central repoistry for information instead of having all these .ini files everywhere.

The registry files can be found in your c:\Windows folder and are called user.data and system.dat. They are binary files (consist of 0's and 1's) not text files.

PLEASE make sure you BACKUP registry before you start playing with it.
If you somehow forget and you screw your system there is always a way out to the problem using the "scanreg /restore" command at the DOS prompt.

Cheers
Beno

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