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Deploying Registry Settings

Because it wouldn't be very practical to go running around your entire organization logging in to systems and manually changing individual Registry keys, and because you can't really trust the users to successfully navigate the Registry Editor on their own, you need to have some ways to easily change Registry settings with little to no user interaction.

Deploying Registry Settings with .REG Files

The easiest method for distributing Registry settings is through the use of a REG file. You saw how to export and import REG files earlier in this chapter, in the section “Exporting and Importing Registry Files with the Registry Editor” (p. xxx), but in that section you were exporting an entire Registry key. Let's take a look ...