When people mimic the display rather than the actual data

Raymond Chen May 12, 2006 May 12, 2006 05/12/06

I recall a bug that we were investigating that was being caused by a registry key being set when it shouldn't have been. But when you looked at the key in Regedit, it say "(value not set)". Why were we going down the "value is set" branch? A little spelunking with the debugger revealed the reason directly: Whoever set up that registry key ...