do i need to reboot after I edit the registry?

[Judy]

Hi,

After I edit the values in the regedit, do i need to
reboot the machine in order for the change to take effect?

Thanks for ur help
Judy

 

[Ray at]

That depends on what you modified.

Ray at work

 

[Guest]

Hi, Ray,

I edited the TcpWindowSize and Tcp1323Opts for
timestamping. Do I need to reboot my laptop?

Thanks again!

Judy

 

[Ray at]

For something like that, I would ~guess~ yes. If you modify settings of
applications that are not open, you probably wouldn't. But when things are
already loaded, they will not typically requery the registry to see if
things have changed. You can get away with a lot of shell changes by
killing your explorer.exe process and restarting it, but for networking
things that are running as services, rebooting would be the simplest thing.

Ray at work