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Dan,
1 If you use this procedure with the ISO of a new Version, as many of us do, then the new Version might change some Registry entries back to their defaults.
- It's the new Version rather than the Repair install [In-place update] procedure that does this and it would have the same effect if you used Windows update to handle updating to the new Version.
2 I agree with Tomcat that it can be well worth keeping the .reg files for all your tweaks in a single folder together with links to the sources you used to do them [such as links to the TenForumsTutorials you used].
It is always useful to check the relevant tutorial before restoring any tweaks because they can change over time [as MS changes where it saves things in the Registry for new Versions].
3 You could put all your tweaks into a single giant .reg file but that would hinder adapting to changes suggested in amended tutorials.- You'll see how to do it if you drop one of your .reg files into a Notepad window. Do this for a few of them and you'll see their simple & consistent pattern. You'll see the same pattern in .reg files you create by Exporting a Registry Key in .reg format [which is the only useful export format - never use the .txt export format].
- Even though I have more than several tweaks, I have only ever stuffed any into a single .reg file if they are so closely related that I would always review them as a whole rather than singly. The only example I can think of off the top of my head is my set of tweaks for removing entries from the context menu, New section.
4 Unlike Paul, I do not make any distinction between tweaks that add or change Registry entries and those that remove them.- .reg files are "merged" rather than "run".
- When you use a .reg file, its contents are "merged" into the Registry. That's just the terminology in common use and should not concern you at all.
Denis