RegEdit: The most logical place to start is Windows’s built-in Registry Editor, RegEdit. You can find this by searching for Regedit.exe in the Start menu or at the Start screen; it will require elevated administrator privileges to run.
The built-in Registry Editor is a fairly basic editing and viewing app for the Registry, but then it doesn’t have to do much. For the majority of the time all you will need to do with the Registry is back up and reimport Registry files, and view, create, modify, and delete individual keys and values.
To summarize, the Registry Editor allows you to perform the following operations:
- Locate a subtree, key, subkey, or value.
- Add a subkey or a value.
- Change a value.
- Delete a subkey or a value.
- Rename a subkey or a value.