From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> regedit doesn't honor the security settings of keys, you can read stuff that
> you can't read with regedt32 without having to change permissions.

I don't believe that. The security settings in the registry are handled at
a low level within the operating system. Regedit.exe and regedt32.exe are
just applications that ask the OS to read/write values.

It's conceivable that there could be some things you can see in regedit
that are not visible in regedt32 (or vice versa) due to a difference in
opinion on what to do with certain combinations of permission settings.
However, I suggest that any discrepancy you have observed would be allowed
by a careful study of the actual permissions (that is, you would NOT be
able to read a setting if the permissions did not allow it).

Frank: Old systems like Win98 had regedit only. The NT family provided
regedt32 to handle the NT-specific features of the registry (manipulate
permissions and handle some new registry types like multi-strings). NT also
provided regedit because it had a better GUI for some things, particularly
searching.

On the new systems (XP, Win2003), there is no regedt32. Everything is now
handled by regedit.

John

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