Windows XP Registry.

Regedit leaves the Registry with all Branches open, unless they are closed manually.

Does anyone know of any Registry editing software that has an easy way of collapsing everything automatically.

Many Thanks.

 

Perhaps:
HOW TO: Prevent Regedit.exe from Using the Last State:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q244004

Or a workaround:
Tip: After you start Regedit, press and hold down SHIFT+LEFT ARROW to collapse all the entries back to the My Computer entry.

 

Many Thanks for the reply.

This is precisely what I was after.

 

Might be good to find an XP-specific article on this if there is one. The link is to a 2K article.

NT4/2K offered two products for registry editing. They looked and behaved somewhat differently with regedt32 being the newer version and regedit the older.

XP still has both listed but regedt32 simply starts the regedit program - and that is an updated one so the old 2K regedit no longer exists.

Instructions given for tweaking the 2K versions might work fine or may not work properly or at all with the XP version.