Registry is one of the most critical elements of a Windows Operating System. While appropriate changes to registry can boost system performance, fix hardware or software issues on one hand, an inappropriate change could lead to system crash and unpredictable behavior of Operating System.  RegEdit.exe is Window’s system tool to manually make changes to Windows Registry.   There is a beautiful article about Windows Registry Tools viz. REGEDIT.EXE & REGEDT32.EXE in the context of Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems. The article touches upon following areas of Windows Registry and Registry editing…

·         Editing Local or Remote System’s Windows Registry

·         Setting permissions in Windows Registry elements

·         Data Types in windows registry.

·         Enabling/Disabling Registry Editor's last open key functionality

·         Backing-up and restoring registry using Export and Import of Registry Keys and Values.

·         Describes structure of an Exported Registry file.

·         Lastly, it describes printing registry

While working with any registry editing tool it is necessary that you first backup the registry as all changes are saved to current configuration in real time. There is another tool viz. REG which could be used in batch files or command line to perform add, delete, query, export or import registry.

The complete article can be read at http://www.web-articles.info/e/a/title/Windows-XP-uses-only-one-registry-editor/