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clover
08-01-2005, 06:03 PM
Is there a difference which way a name is displayed in the Registry?

E.g. I had the following name and value in the registry: MaxCachedIcons. Another program (tweak) added: Max Cached Icons. Naturally I don't want both entries, but which style is correct, with or without the spaces, or does it matter?
BertImmenschuh
08-01-2005, 06:25 PM
Usually with no spaces but the program that created the second one may need it that way to run. Since there is a key named MaxCachedIcons the spaces make the Max Cached Icons entry a whole different one. Same thing with file names, one character difference changes it.

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clover
08-01-2005, 06:31 PM
Thanks for that, Bert. I put the no-spaces one in myself. But if the second one is different, what would it relate to? (It was put in by XPpowertoys and was probably programmed that way). Wouldn't it be better to remove one of them?
BertImmenschuh
08-01-2005, 06:50 PM
The MaxCachedIcons is the only key in my WinXP Pro with SP1a, don't have the other one. I have the TweakUI from WinXP PowerToys installed [not the 1.33 version for other version of Windows].

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer]
"IconUnderline"=hex(0):03,00,00,00
"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000001
"MaxCachedIcons"="8192"

It's possible the one with spaces is not effective.

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clover
08-01-2005, 06:58 PM
Thanks again Bert. I added the same line as you manually. Perhaps Powertoys put in the spaces as it had already discovered the line there, perhaps to differenciate from it.

In any case, I will remove the second entry with spaces.