In my experience, people are far more afraid of the Registry than they
should be. Very little that you do in the Reg is gonna completely disable
your OS install. Just export the key before you delete/change it and 9 times
out of 10 you're gonna be just fine.
I think all the self-appointed Windows experts overstate the danger in the
interests of CYA. Just don't muck about if you don't know explicitly what
you are doing; the same holds true of simply deleting files.
-----Original Message-----
From: Laurent Daudelin [mailto:nemesys_at_cox.net]
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:12 PM
To: NewtonTalk
Subject: Re: [NTLK] OT: NT Tab completion (was Re:The OQO should have
been the new Newton?)
on 07/06/02 12:31, Sunder at sunder_at_sunder.net wrote:
> The tabkey completion works very well and at all times under NT 4, Win2K,
> and possibly XP. Don't know about 9x,ME and don't care.
>
>
> Copy the following into notepad
>
> ---->8 cut below this line here 8<-----
> REGEDIT4
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
> "CompletionChar"=dword:00000009
>
> ---->8 cut above this line 8<-----
>
> (Save it as "tab completion.reg" - you might have to change your views to
> unhide extensions as notepad will name this "tab
> completion.reg.txt" unless you change the file type to "* All files" when
> doing "Save As")
I've mocked before the NT registry on my NT box, and I wouldn't suggest to
anybody to do it, unless you're very familiar with it. As much as I would
like to have tab completion when I'm forced to use my NT box at work, I'm
not planning to play around the registry.
Just my $0.02...
-Laurent.
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