From: John Beckett 

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news::
> What's the point of putting a spurious initial 0xFF in an otherwise-text NT
> 5.00 registry file?  Just to prevent casual text editing by lusers?  Seems to
> load, and I've seen it twice now.

Regedit exports in Unicode format, with the first two bytes of the file
being FF FE hex. That is the BOM (byte order mark), which in this case
indicates that the file is UTF-16 little-endian format.

John

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