Use is subject to the terms and conditions of the license agreement distributed with the programs. The Registry is organized in a tree structure, similar to the directory tree structure displayed in Windows Explorer. My Computer is even the root of the tree. The tree consists of keys and values . Keys are like folders, in that each key is contained in exactly one parent key and can contain any number of other keys.
Values are like files-each value belongs to exactly one key.
Subkeys of the same parent cannot have the same name, nor can any two values belonging to the same key. Key and value names are not case-sensitive, so, for example, the value names Dubya and dubya are treated as identical. Just below the root of the Registry tree are five special root keys . Registry Detective searches the root keys in the order just listed. Three are actually branches of the other two.