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Mysterious @ character in the Windows Registry

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Mar 15, 20261896 views
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When I navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\WMP.PlayCD\Shell\Play" in The Windows Registry, I find one REG_EXPAND_SE named MUIVerb on my Windows 7 system. However in its contents it's carrying "@%windir%\system32\wmploc.dll,-6503" Now my question is: What does this @ character mean or d…

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Fix for: Mysterious @ character in the Windows Registry

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The registry itself is just a hierarchical data store; notations and meanings depend on the program using the data. In this case, the value is where Explorer keeps textual descriptions of file actions. For a while they used to be kept in the registr…

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