Re: unlocking registration key

You are right of course and I should have been clear on that point. A text file is a text file. It is the extension and format of the text file that calls regedit and allows the .reg file entry to be inserted into the registry.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


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When you run the above .reg file

Just to avoid some misunderstanding of 'regfiles', they don't *run* any
more than a 'textfile' does. Either, when chosen, will cause the OS to
invoke another program (regedit and notepad respectively by default)
and pass the contents to those programs to be consumed by them.

I know *you* know this and that the OP can change the extension to
'txt' to read the contents thereof in 'notepad', but maybe some readers
would get the wrong idea when someone says that they run regfiles.


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