Registry Editor - Some things don't show up?

[PerhapsAverage]

Some things don't show up, it's hard to explain..
Example: CurrentControlSet. The only thing that's there is ControlSet001.

If I edit keys in ControlSet001, will it be the same as CurrentControlSet?

(editing windows 10 pro 22h2 19045.3803 image on Windows 11 Enterprise 22H2 22621.2213 host machine)

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[garlin]

CurrentControlSet is a registry alias for which ControlSet profile is currently used by a live system.
What are Control Sets? What is CurrentControlSet?

Similar to HKCU being an alias for your user profile, as provided by your logon session. An offline image only has one ControlSet profile (001) since it's never been installed.

Offline images will have a skeleton (empty) registry because many reg keys are populated by first-run processes during Windows setup. Captured images from sysprep will have substantially more keys, since they are nearly finished with install.

Some keys may be integrated into the offline image; but others must be added later in Post-Setup, because Windows may overwrite them during the first-run process.

 

[PerhapsAverage]

CurrentControlSet is a registry alias for which ControlSet profile is currently used by a live system.
What are Control Sets? What is CurrentControlSet?

Similar to HKCU being an alias for your user profile, as provided by your logon session. An offline image only has one ControlSet profile (001) since it's never been installed.

Offline images will have a skeleton (empty) registry because many reg keys are populated by first-run processes during Windows setup. Captured images from sysprep will have substantially more keys, since they are nearly finished with install.

Some keys may be integrated into the offline image; but others must be added later in Post-Setup, because Windows may overwrite them during the first-run process.

So, from what I understand from this message, if I edit a key in controlset001, it *will* transfer over to the main image, and the effects *will* be present?

 

[garlin]

That is generally true. But I would expect some settings to get overwritten, as Windows dynamically updates ControlSet001.

But you should not edit the registry from RegEdit. Write the same changes to a reg file, and import this file from the Registry screen.

 

[PerhapsAverage]

That is generally true. But I would expect some settings to get overwritten, as Windows dynamically updates ControlSet001.

But you should not edit the registry from RegEdit. Write the same changes to a reg file, and import this file from the Registry screen.

Okay, thank you.