One of the most well-known differences between managing UNIX-like systems and Windows systems is the Windows Registry. Chef has resources for creating, modifying, and deleting Windows Registry keys. Beware that these operations are nonreversible (there is no implicit backup of values, so it may be worth preparing a backup before modifying values), and that they can potentially be very destructive.
Paths to registry keys must also include the registry hive. The hive can be fully specified or we could use the following abbreviations:
HKLM
forHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKCC
forHKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
HKCR
forHKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
HKU
forHKEY_USERS
HKCU
forHKEY_CURRENT_USER