However, many settings only can be accessed through RegEdit, the powerful and dangerous Window Registry Editor. Changes made using RegEdit can cause far-reaching problems. Also, it's tedious to open a lengthy key in RegEdit, as you must painstakingly locate and click on every element of that key. To open a key in one step, type its name into the key list, or select it from the pull down list of recently visited keys. You can save frequently used Registry keys as Favorites.
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In response to the Internet Explorer Administration Kit and the ability to stage a set of files to use for installing on multiple clients, a few of you mentioned that there is a Download Only option available with the IE Setup process. Under Windows 2000, if you're already running IE 5.5, this option is not available. Brian Rondeau has run into this in the past, and passed along the solution to me, which I present to you as an alternative to using the IEAK, though you don't get the numerous customization capabilities that go along with IEAK, so if you have the need to provide specific configurations, then IEAK is still the best way to go. In the course of a recent Microsoft Access programming project, we had three difficult technical problems where we decided to call a support hotline for advice. This article compares the two support numbers we tried - Microsoft Technical Support and the Psychic Friends Network.