JJ,

It's not possible, unfortunately. The reason is that RegEdit
doesn't have the capability to change the type of a value

I noticed that, and have been using the route thru the clipboard for a while
now. The whole problem is that you can't delete-and-recreate the
"(default)" key (it gets recreated as soon as you've deleted it). Hence,
you cannot "change" it from within regedit.

.... Though I was hoping I just missed something somewhere.

I've search for a third party registry editors which have the
ability to change value type. Surprisingly, I only found 3 of them.
[Snip]

Thanks.

Some time back I tried to write my own mini registry editor, but bumped into
the problem that such a program does not even have enough user rights to
*read* all the keys (let alone write) - which regedit had no problem with.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser