Timeline for Retain answer on how to use Windows registry?
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| Mar 6, 2015 at 12:44 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | @Psycogeek please feel free to prove an alternate text that is less ominous ;) | |
| Mar 6, 2015 at 11:26 | comment | added | Psycogeek | @DavidPostill I was thinking something more simple and less ominous :-) Because in this situation it is a deletion. Simple like: Export this specific branch of the registry (as backup), then delete these items. . & Edward, yea I do get what your saying, if they do not know how to edit a registry, then . . . ? they wont edit the registry, they will use the GUI method. Many end up editing the registry because it was the Only way to make some changes. That is how I got started, no choice, and trial and error. | |
| Mar 5, 2015 at 18:34 | comment | added | Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 | IMO there's no new information, so it should have been an edit to the existing answer (to make it better) or a comment. All it is (to me) is basic instructions on how to use Regedit, using the already given answer as an example. | |
| Mar 5, 2015 at 16:35 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | I added an appropriate warning comment to both answers | |
| Mar 5, 2015 at 13:16 | comment | added | Edward Brey | @Psycogeek I find the two extrema to be safe: (1) Don't say how to modify the registry (in which case a user's ignorance and need to Google the how-to will protect him - this is why I didn't include a disclaimer), and (2) tell how to modify the registry, but with full safety disclosures. Unsafe is the middle ground where the user learns just enough to be dangerous. Although both extrema are safe, I am concerned about disclosure overload if every registry-related answer has instructions and a necessary caveat. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 5:48 | comment | added | Psycogeek | I do not think so, and I do not know why you feel the need to worry about it? Seems like it was a FAN of your answer who proceeded to follow your answer and in doing so wrote down the steps they followed completly to do it. As for #2 , it is confusing when you did not place any disclaimer yourself to backup the Key first before deletion in your own answer. So far I see the whole thing as a Win-Win the whole of the answer is there. It is everything one might need to do the removal ('cept the backup part) | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 2:18 | history | answered | Edward Brey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |