You might know that on Windows machines using a .reg file you may add, update or delete system registry subkeys and values.
To delete a registry subkey you need to put a hyphen in front of the subkeys path like so
<pre><code>[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test]
</code></pre>To delete a registry value you need to put a hyphen after the equal sign like so
<pre><code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test
"TestValue"=-
</code></pre>

You might know that on Windows machines using a .reg file you may add, update or delete system registry subkeys and values.

To delete a registry subkey you need to put a hyphen in front of the subkeys path like so

```
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test]
``` 

To delete a registry value you need to put a hyphen after the equal sign like so

```
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test
"TestValue"=-
``` 

Delete system registry subkeys and values via a .reg file

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Delete system registry subkeys and values via a .reg file