Registry Editors
You will probably need to inspect the registry at some point during driver development. The basic Registry Editor regedit is useful for most jobs, particularly as it can search the registry. However, for some jobs in NT and Windows 2000, you will need to use RedEdt32, as it can handle all the registry types, such as REG_MULTI_SZ strings.
This book assumes that you have a reasonable working knowledge of the registry. HKLM is used as abbreviation for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. The DDKs sometimes refer to HKLM as Registry\MACHINE.