From: John Beckett 

Gary Britt  wrote in message
news::
> I much prefer storing them in plain old version 4 > ascii format.

If you really want, you can open an exported .reg file in Notepad, then use
Save As. There is an option to save as ANSI format, which will halve the
size of the .reg text file (and omit any Unicode-only characters).

John

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