Hello Board !

I accidently deleted the registry key SMDEn in the Regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsrt\CurrentVersion\SMDEn.

My Questions:

* Can anyone help to reinstall it?

* Also, what is it and is it really critical for the computer operation? It does not seem to affect my computer so far that I

am awared of.

Please help me.

Thanks for any reply.

Hmmm I tracked the reg entry and got this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SMDEn]

Thats it, no sub-keys, dwords or anything!

Seems to me you're pretty safe without it. If you fell you want it back just make a reg file from what I posted and re-enter it.

Hmmm I tracked the reg entry and got this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SMDEn]

Thats it, no sub-keys, dwords or anything!

Seems to me you're pretty safe without it. If you fell you want it back just make a reg file from what I posted and re-enter it.

Thanks for the assurance.

Edited November 1, 200816 yr by carlos.sammy

OK but i need to know which OS?

I'm sorry. It's Home Editon SP3.

there are a few entries in my registry. I'm on xp sp3 pro

SMDEn.reg

there are a few entries in my registry. I'm on xp sp3 pro

SMDEn.reg

Thank you Geej for the registry enries. Those were the exact key and values that I accidently deleted.

My question still is what are they for?

My question still is what are they for?

I took a peek for this file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\xpsp1res.dll and view in Hex editor, so I think it is something to do with setting/setup relating to wireless network configuration & services. (see screenshot 1)

When view in Restorator 2007, clicking the "string" resource shown the message number as in the registry entries. So basically I think it is just some shortcut that Windows created during setup. But I'm no expert. Hope this input sheds some light on what it is all about.

Cheers!