Are you a power user that occasionally needs to get under the hood of your system? Well, this month's utility is geared towards you. We've updated our powerful Registry editing program, RegistryMaster.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Registry, the Registry stores a vast amount of information that's constantly being used by your Windows operating system. It's the repository for important data such as user profiles, application data, the types of documents that applications can create, hardware profiles, and much more.

Some Registry settings can be accessed through Control Panel applets or other specialized utilities. But editing or analyzing other settings requires the use of a Registry editor.

RegistryMaster features:

• A powerful search tool—unlike the anemic "Find" feature in Windows' regedit, which can only find one instance of a word at a time and doesn't allow searching more than one word or expression. Our search allows you to find multiple words in an assortment of ways and returns all of the matches at once in an easy-to-understand results page.

• An easy way to go to a key—with RegistryMaster you type in a key and you're immediately taken to that key. So much more effective than navigating through the keys in regedit.

New features include:

• An attractive new interface

• 64-bit support

• Go-To-Address bar now features type-ahead autocomplete

• The ability to easily re-launch with admin privileges

• Improved compatibility with Windows Vista and 7

• The ability to jump to the corresponding key in HKLM or HKCU

Note: If you are unfamiliar with the Registry, we suggest you be very careful when making any changes to it. We recommend making a backup of the branch that you are working on with RegistryMaster before you make changes. You may also want to do a complete Registry backup. You can also run System Restore to create a backup of the entire Registry.

                                         Intro to Registry Master
When you launch RegistryMaster you'll see the last key that you viewed in either RegistryMaster or Windows' Regedit. You'll see a list of keys on the left and the value for the selected key on the right.

If you know of a particular key that you want to go to, simply type the key into the Address input box. RegistryMaster features a type-ahead autocomplete that will help you quickly enter the key you want to jump to. When you've finished typing hit the Go button and the tree will jump to that key. You can type the full hive name (like "HKEY_CURRENT_USER") or a shortcut, like "HKCU" or "CU."

You can browse through the Registry tree, starting at the top level (known as the the hives) and working your way down through the keys.

And you can also search for a particular key, value, or piece of data.