Preparing for Registry Editing If you're a system administrator or technical-support specialist, you're certainly able to provide many examples of situations where users called for technical support when encountering registry problems | Preparing for Registry Editing If you re a system administrator or technical-support specialist you re certainly able to provide many examples of situations where users called for technical support when encountering registry problems. Sometimes fortunately this case isn t common the user encounters registry-corruption problems before he or she can start Windows for the first time. Registry corruption is especially likely when inexperienced users modify the registry because they often set incorrect values or even delete necessary keys. All these actions result in registry corruption. Before proceeding any further it is recommended that you study alternative methods of modifying the registry and various techniques for registry backup and recovery. There are several alternative methods of editing the Windows NT 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 registry that you can use to solve the problem or configure the system parameters. Some of these methods were described in Chapter 1. Some Internet resources provide various tips on solving problems using complicated registry-editing procedures. Users with a sound knowledge of the functionality provided by newer releases of Windows may find simpler and at the same time more elegant solutions since most problems can be solved using Control Panel applets and other administrative utilities. Caution If you make an error while modifying the registry for example by setting incorrect values or deleting vital registry entries you may prevent the system from booting. Whenever possible modify the system configuration using Control Panel applets or other administrative utilities. Registry editor should be used only as a last resort. System administrators may wish to restrict user access to the registry in order to protect the system configuration. This topic will be discussed in detail in Chapter 9. So you need to open the registry and solve your problems by modifying it. This is a normal situation and you ll probably edit the .
