The Old New Thing

Cheap amusement: Searching for spelling errors in the registry

May 10, 2012 May 10, 2012 05/10/12

Raymond Chen

One source of cheap amusement is searching for spelling errors in the registry. For example, one program tried to register a new file extension, or at least they tried, except that they spelled wrong. And they wonder why that feature never worked. My discovery was that my registry contained the mysterious key . After some debugging, I ...