Hives Keys Values
What are registry hives, registry keys and registry values?
You might have come across these terms before. Don’t get confused by the terminology of Microsoft. Let us find out about each of these terms.
Registry Hives
The windows registry is divided into a number of hives. The registry hive is a logical section which contains registry keys and values that has supporting files which contains its data backups.
Registry Keys and Values
Keys and values are the two basic elements in a windows registry. Windows registry keys can be considered as folders with values. Similar to folders each registry key can contain subkeys. The subkeys also may contain subkeys, kust like sub-folders can contain folders inside them.
Registry Values are data pairs stored within windows registry keys.
Do not get overwhelmed all these technical stuff. Let’s see examples to get a clear idea.
- HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG is an example of Registry Hive
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\ is an example of a registry key
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