Consquences of deleting a registry key

[Edo]

Hi all,


because of a problem in microsoft outlook 2003 i searched and found a
solution on microsoft knowledge base.

Unfortunately, i made a little mistake when changing a registry key the
article suggested to.

The instructions told me to delete the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Protected Storage System Provider

but i also deleted the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Protected Storage System Provider

what will be the consequences of having deleted the latter registry
key? I have experienced none so far, but I would be interested to konw
if there are substantial differences between this key and the one I was
supposed to delete.


Thanks in advance

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi all,


because of a problem in microsoft outlook 2003 i searched and found a
solution on microsoft knowledge base.

Unfortunately, i made a little mistake when changing a registry key the
article suggested to.

The instructions told me to delete the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Protected Storage System Provider

but i also deleted the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Protected Storage System Provider

what will be the consequences of having deleted the latter registry
key? I have experienced none so far, but I would be interested to konw
if there are substantial differences between this key and the one I was
supposed to delete.


Thanks in advance

A safe approach would be to use System Restore to undo the
damage, then delete the correct key.

 

[Edo]

Sorry i made a mistake, i didn't delete the key itself, but the subkey.
Could anyone tell me what's the subkey of
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Protected Storage System
Provider?

Thanks



Pegasus (MVP) ha scritto:

 

[Edo]

Can someone at least tell me, what´s the difference between

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER keys?



You know for something more than me about this topic

 

[Edwin vMierlo]

you will find a brief explanation of the registry here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986

but I would urge you to be very carefull messing with registry keys, it can
render your machine unusable to the point where you can not repair the
installation and full new install is the only option left.



Can someone at least tell me, what´s the difference between

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER keys?



You know for something more than me about this topic