Registry View

 

The DameWare NT Utilities Registry view interface provides a very robust and easy to use environment for registry management of both local and remote NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows7 machines. Registry updates can be initiated from one client machine via Batch Processing to any machine available in the Network Browser. The Registry view displays the machines included in the Batch Processing in the lower portion of the view. This lower portion of the Registry view works like a queue manager of the target machines to be updated. Machines can be added to the Batch Processing using drag and drop from the Network Browser. The machines added to the Batch Processing are saved so that each time you load the Registry view the machines will be listed. You can abort Batch Processing Registry updates any time during the process and any updates not yet executed will be cancelled. DNTU makes use of many different icons to help provide visual feedback to the user as to the status of registry batch processing updates on both local and remote machines.

The upper portion of the Registry view will show the registry hives and keys (if any of the hive(s) are expanded) in the left portion of the Registry view and the names and values for the selected registry key, in the right portion of the Registry view, for the selected machine. Each of the columns contained in the upper portion and the columns contained in the lower portion of the Registry view, support column sorting and column ordering. The selected registry Hive(s)/Key(s) can be exported to a REGEDIT4 .REG file by selecting the Registry/Export Registry File option from the pull down menu. Once selected, a file dialog save window will be displayed for you to select the location to save the registration file on the local machine. A registration file may also be imported by selecting the Registry/Import Registry File option from the pull down menu. (Refer to Batch Processing below for batch registration file updates.) DNTU supports the Microsoft RegEdit4 signature file format. The lower portion of the Registry view lists the Machine name, Action, Status, Machine Type and Error columns. The Error column will show the error code and error description whenever an error condition has occurred.


The DameWare NT Utilities Registry view also includes a binary editor for adding and changing the values for REG_BINARY data types.


The following options are available from the mini-toolbar located at the bottom of the Registry view.

 

Notes:

DNTU’s Registry View currently does not support the following functionality:

 

The following rules govern the content of these value entry components:

 

The following status codes and descriptions are available within the lower pane of the Registry view.

 

None   No Batch registry updates have been performed.

Complete  Okay status

Error  The Batch registry update failed. Refer to the Error field displayed in the lower portion of the Registry view window.

Pending   The Batch registry update is in the queue to be imported on this machine.

Active   The Batch registry update is in progress on this machine.