---
title: "Blindfolded"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/12/blindfolded.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/12/blindfolded.html"
published: "2003-05-12T08:02:00"
updated: "2003-05-12T08:02:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here's something I couldn't figure out: Did you know that Regedit has a \"Favories\" menu? Yes. That good ol' (hateful, conniving) regedit we all \"love\". I only realized this a few days ago, thanks to a comment from David…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Blindfolded

By Roy Osherove May 12, 2003 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 12, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Here's something I couldn't figure out:

Did you know that Regedit has a "Favories" menu? Yes. That good ol' (hateful, conniving) regedit  we all "love". I only realized this a few days ago, thanks to a comment from [**David Stone**](http://dotnetweblogs.com/dstone) about a RegEdit replacer I was recommending.

I couldn't figure out  why I havn't noticed it before, although I desperately needed such a feature. I didn't even look for it!

Why?  It occurs to me that sometimes we take the bad for granted and even excpected, when the stuff we "think" we are looking for is right in front of us.

Makes me wonder how many more things like this I keep missing on a daily basis...

## More in Cool Tools

[All posts in Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

- May 18, 2003

    ### [FeedDemon](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/18/feeddemon.html)

- May 15, 2003

    ### [One Cool Menu](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/15/one-cool-menu.html)

- May 11, 2003

    ### [Expresso Is Coolness](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/11/expresso-is-coolness.html)

- May 10, 2003

    ### [InnovaSys SmartTasks Beta Download Available](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/10/innovasys-smarttasks-beta-download-available.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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