From: Gary Britt 

Yes that must be it.  Unicode versus real ascii text.  Regedit or
Resplendent Lite (v2), which is the registry editor I use the most, can
both export in version 5 (unicode?) format or the old version 4 ascii text
format.  When I use registry snippets to work with or edit and later merge
back into the registry, I much prefer storing them in plain old version 4
ascii format.

Gary

Rich wrote:
>    REGEDIT doesn't save binary.  You sound like you seeing Unicode
> (UTF-16).  REGEDIT switched to Unicode at some point because it is
> required to support the registry which is Unicode.  The reason the older
> versions of REGEDIT weren't Unicode was that it was a Windows 95
> component and Windows 95 had an ANSI registry.  REGEDT32 was the Windows
> NT tool.  REGEDT32 was removed when Unicode support and other
> functionality was folded into REGEDIT.
>
> Rich
>
>
>     "Gary Britt"      > wrote in message
>     news:46005ded{at}w3.nls.net...
>     It certainly looks like ascii, but I can tell you from personal
>     experience
>     when I view a non-ascii version 5 registry file with the built in file
>     viewer that comes with ZtreeWin it looks exactly like ascii and like
>     what
>     you've shown below.  Fooled me into thinking it was really ascii
>     until when
>     something wasn't working right for me in trying edit or do something
>     with
>     the file, I finally figured out it was really a binary, non-ascii,
>     file that
>     I was viewing.  If it says its version 5 at the top of the file,
>     then it
>     ain't really ascii.  If it says version 4 at the top of the file
>     than it
>     really is ascii (probably ).
>
>     Gary
>
>     Frank Haber wrote:
>     >  I call this stuff ASCII.  The mounted hives are compressed, and half
>     >  this size...
>     >
>     >  ========
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{b4fe65aa-f9e9-4b13-bd79-a9491
02c5294}\TypeLib]
>
>     >
>     >  {at}="{E891EE9A-D0AE-4cb4-8871-F92C0109F18E}"
>     >
>     >
>     [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{b4fe65aa-f9e9-4b13-bd79-a9491
02c5294}\VersionIndependentProgID]
>
>     >
>     >  {at}="Photoshop.PathPointInfo"
>     >
>     >
>     [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B50F5260-0C21-11D2-AB56-00A0C
9082678}]
>
>     >
>     >  {at}="Compress Files Cleaner"
>     >
>     >
>     [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B50F5260-0C21-11D2-AB56-00A0C
9082678}\DefaultIcon]
>
>     >
>     >
>     {at}=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,0
0,25,\
>
>     >
>     >
>     00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,41,0
0,\
>
>     >
>     >
>     54,00,41,00,43,00,4c,00,45,00,4e,00,2e,00,44,00,4c,00,4c,00,2c,00,32,00,0
0,\
>
>     >
>     >  00

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