• 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    6 months ago

    I still have no idea why HK is in front… why is the key hot 🤔… and what key are we talking about…

    Oh, yeah, and the different key names… Windows, Windows NT (WITH a white space…), Win…

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      6 months ago

      HKEY means “handle to registry key”… Not that that helps anything.

      When code opens a file, device, etc, it’s given a “handle” to it, which is an internal reference so that Windows knows which file you’re reading or writing, and it keeps track of where you are in the document. Similarly, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is the handle that gives you the current user part of the registry.

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        6 months ago

        I know that, the HOTKEY_* part of it was a mystery, why is the key hot… I mean, why does HK have to stand in front of it, it could be simple like just LM, CU, U (Users… still does nothing and nothing in it gets transfered as a setting in new user accounts), CR, etc.

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          6 months ago

          It’s HKEY (handle to key), not HOTKEY. That’s what I was trying to say in my comment. There’s no “HOTKEY”.

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            6 months ago

            Huh… I don’t know where I’ve read this a long time ago, but I could swear it was HOTKEY, not HKEY… your explanation does make sense though, while what I thought never did make sense.