Microsoft® Windows® XP Unleashed

Using the Windows Registry Editor

While Windows NT and Windows 2000 allowed you to pick from two different programs (REGEDIT.EXE or REGEDIT32.EXE), Windows XP includes only one editor, the Windows Registry Editor. If you type either command (regedit or regedt32) at the command prompt or the Run dialog box, the same Windows Registry Editor program runs. For convenience, the remainder of this chapter refers to the program as regedit.

Note

If you are using Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, which runs on the Itanium processor, your Registry will contain both 32-bit and 64-bit keys. Most of the 32-bit keys use the same names as their 64-bit corresponding keys. By default, however, when you run REGEDIT.EXE on a 64-bit version of Windows XP, only the 64-bit ...