Current Help System: PC-DMIS Settings Editor (View Core Help)

### Editing PC-DMIS Registry Entries

PC-DMIS provides you with a custom editor to use with PC-DMIS. This way you won't be editing the registry directly.

PC-DMIS Settings Editor

To edit PC-DMIS registry entries, follow this procedure:

1. Close any open part programs and then exit from the PC-DMIS application entirely.

2. Inside Windows, click on the Start menu and then click Program Files.

3. Click on the PC-DMIS for Windows program group and select Settings Editor. This will launch the PC-DMIS Settings Editor application. It may take a minute to load all of the settings. Once running, you can use the PC-DMIS Settings Editor to find and edit any user-definable setting.

4. Click the plus sign next to the group you want to modify. The list expands.

5. Select the setting you want to change. The PC-DMIS Settings Editor displays information related to the setting you selected.

- Section Name box – displays what section the entry falls under (for example [Option] was a section in the old Pcdlrn.ini file).

- Entry Name box – displays the entry whose value you will change (for example HasRenishawWrist is an entry in the old Pcdlrn.ini file)

- Entry Type box – displays what type of value is needed to modify the entry. These include, boolean, string, double, integer, DWORD.

- Current Value box – displays the value of the setting selected. If the value displayed is NONE, you will see that it is followed by a value in parentheses. For example you might see something like NONE(0). NONE indicates that you haven’t changed a registry setting from its default value. The value in parentheses represents the default value, in this case a zero. PC-DMIS initially uses the default setting for the entries. When you change a value, PC-DMIS then adds a new key to the registry for that entry.

6. Change the value of the setting in the Current Value box and then click Save Setting. Be aware that you can always revert the selected entry back to its internal factory setting by clicking the Delete Setting button. Additionally, when you click Save Setting PC-DMIS only stores a temporary record of your change; it doesn't actually update the registry until you click the Update Registry button.

7. Click the Update Registry button to permanently save all you changes to the registry.

8. Click Close once you have finished editing. The dialog box closes. If you have entries that weren't updated when you click Close, a dialog box appears allowing you at that point to choose whether or not to save or discard changes made.

Note: You must run the PC-DMIS Settings Editor by itself. If you run the PC-DMIS Settings Editor with PC-DMIS you'll get a message informing you that you will need to close PC-DMIS prior to running the settings editor.

More:

Exporting and Importing Customized Settings

Clearing All Registry Entries

Saving Multiple Changes

Cancelling Your Changes

Finding an Entry

Multiple Arm Configuration