List of Possible registry entries

The other day, I tried to do something that I felt should be possible, but that I couldn't easily understand.  Since I wasn't getting any type of error, I really wasn't sure what to search on.  In the end, I found that it was possible that I wanted to do and that the solution was to add a registry entry - which does not even exist in the registry by default.  I could have easily solved the problem myself if I had known that the particular registry entry was even possible.  I was wondering if there is a list somewhere of all the * possible * entries to Windows registry and various Microsoft products.

I realize that such a list would be huge.  Also, I realize that applications must have a way of adding their own registry entries and the operating system to say that means each.  So I don't think there was ever a master list.

Currently, to solve problems where there no error message, but when I want to know that if something is possible, I do a search, fiddling with my search terms of refining, possbily read through a number of lengthy discussions, which most are not the solution, just to find hidden in a thread dark that my problems will be solved if I put a certain value of register 1.  It can be a very time consuming effort.  Is there a way for me to become aware of the possible values of registry that can be set, then I could find this resource and most likely find the answer much faster.

Is there such a resource that one can use for possible registry values for search?  If this is not the case, how other people discover the registry values that are not defined by default, or may not even exist without be added manually by the user?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

-Tom

The Windows registry is largely undocumented.  There are a few books (you know, those things you hold in your hands, but can't click on), but they are usually both incomplete and almost instantly out of date.

A search engine is really the best way to learn things.  Or ask a lot of questions in the MSDN or TechNet forums.

It is fun, a Google search for "Windows Registry Documentation" shot to the top of this site which seems to be exactly what you want - Documentation Project for the Windows registry - until you discover that despite his record on SourceForge almost exactly ten years ago, there is no file, no notice, no support, no wiki, and the 'list of skills' admin 'project' is empty.

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