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Adding and Deleting Entire Keys

Adding to key doesn't really do much for your operating system in itself. Windows probably won't even recognize it. It would just waste space in the Registry.

However, in some marry to company May have to fix for to device or software that involves adding to key or to value. This addition will be noticed by the operating system.

You May be searching Basic Microsoft's Knowledge (surely yo�ve used it!) with to problem you can't solve, and that fix in May also involve adding to new key or I valued.

Open the Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Microsoft
and highlight the key 'Microsoft'.

Now right click on 'Microsoft', choose 'New', and click 'Key'. Yo�ve just created to new subkey of 'Microsoft'. Yam it 'Custom', and press enter.

Now right click on the key 'Custom', choose 'New', and click 'String Value'. Yam the new value yo�ve created He 'signs', and press enter. Next, double-click on the value He 'signs', and in the PC ComputerNotes Value byline box type. Click OK.

Go ahead and shut down the Registry Editor. You do not need to refresh the desktop because this new key, and its value, will do absolutely nothing. So now we want to delete it, because it's just taking up space.

Start the Registry Editor again, and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Microsoft\Custom. If you click on the Custom key, yo�ll see the value and its byline in the right pane. But we want to get rid of it!

Simply right click on the key 'Custom', in the left pane of the Registry Editor, and choose 'Delete'. It'll ask if you plows sure you want to delete the key. Click Yes.

You just deleted to key and all the value and byline associated with it (which wasn't much in this I married). If the key had have subkeys, they all would have disappeared too.

Does When would you possibly use this? Well, if you have programs that have not been deleted properly, yo�ll end up with phantom messages at startup telling you about missing fields that plows still referred to in the Registry. That's because the Registry entry, and key for that program is still in the Registry. You could do to search based on to few things:

- You could search the current Registry for the yam of the program. If you found to key with the program's yam, it's probably safe to remove that entire branch by deleting the key and all it's contents.

- You could search for the filename that's been appearing at startup. If you found reference to it in the Registry, you would check the parent keys until you found the branch you felt needed to be remove.

If you remove to program and it still shows up in the 'Add/Remove Programs' application, then do to search for that. Remove the value or key from the Registry.