Removing an unneeded hive. Select the hive that you no longer need to modify in the left pane. Choose
File
Unload Hive. The Registry Editor removes the hive from the left pane.
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ESSENTIAL REGISTRY HACKS
Working with the RegEdit Utility at the Command Line
The RegEdit utility is extremely powerful, yet it??™s one of the most undocumented utilities available
on your machine. The Microsoft-recommended command line switches for the RegEdit utility
appear in the Knowledge Base article at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q82821/
. The
Knowledge Base article limits you to the
/V
and
/S
command line switches. The RegEdit utility
itself doesn??™t display any helpful information when you try the
/?
command line switch. The
Windows help file just barely discusses using the utility in GUI mode. In short, not only is this utility
extremely powerful, you also won??™t get much help from Microsoft in using it. This utility uses
the following syntax:
RegEdit [Filename] [-v] [-s] [-e RegFilename [Key]] [-l:Path] [-r:Path]
[-c RegFilename] [-d Key]
The following list describes each of the command line arguments.
Filename
Specifies the name of a file that contains registry information.
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