Overall, the 'Registry Preview' tool is a great addition to PowerToys 0.69 and can help users to maintain their Windows Registry more effectively.

This could be really great, but the tool completely lacks this capability. There is no value type suggestions, syntax highlighting, or anything like that.įinally, the right area that exposes values is not able to decode the hexadecimal strings (REG_EXPAND_SZ). However, it doesn't provide you any advanced editing option. In addition to the preview functionality, the 'Registry Preview' tool allows directly editing the REG file content in the left pane. However, this feature helps for faster navigation in a huge Registry file. Unfortunately, there is no option to display all values at once, which can require more clicking to find the desired information. It is worth noting that the tool only shows values when you select the corresponding keys on the right side of the interface. This can help users to easily understand the changes that will be made to the Windows Registry before executing the file. On the right side of the dialog, it provides information about the keys and values that will be affected by the changes.

You can launch Registry Preview from the main PowerToys window, or from the right-click menu of a REG file. reg file is loaded into the 'Registry Preview' tool, it displays the contents of the file on the left side of the interface. The 'Registry Preview' tool in PowerToys 0.69 helps users to visualize these instructions in a more user-friendly way. It can be opened in any plain text editor, and its contents can be easily viewed using a simple syntax. Notable fixes and improvements in PowerToys 0.69 Registry Preview in PowerToysĪ *.reg file is essentially a text file that carries out changes to the Windows Registry when it is executed on a Windows device.

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