Viewing and Printing Registry Data as Text

You can examine the contents of a Registry key as text for troubleshooting. You can save a key as a text file, and you can print data from Registry Editor, including a key, its subkeys, and all of the value entries of all of its subkeys.

The Save Subtree As command on the Registry menu in Regedt32 also works for the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware key, which you cannot otherwise save in its entirety as a hive file.

To save a Registry key as a text file

• In Regedt32, select the key you want to save as a text file. From the Registry menu, click Save Subtree As. Use the Save As dialog box to navigate to the subdirectory of your choice, type a filename, and then click OK. .
• In Regedit, from the Registry menu, click Print, then click the Print To File check box, and click OK. In the Print To File dialog box, type a path and filename for the text file.

To print a Registry key

• In Regedt32, select the key or subkey you want to print. Then, from the Registry menu, click Print Subtree. Printing begins immediately. (Print options must be set in advance by clicking Printer Setup on the Registry menu.)
• In Regedit, from the Registry menu, click Print. In the Print dialog box, select an option under Print Range. The All option prints the entire Registry. The Selected branch option prints a specified path in the Registry. (If you click a key or subkey before clicking Print, its path appears in the Selected branch box, but you can type a path as well.) Click OK.