The ArcMap Advanced Settings utility is a companion settings utility for ArcMap. It is designed to give users safe access to customization settings for ArcMap that cannot be changed within the software itself. This document describes the registry keys written by the ArcMap Advanced Settings utility. The utility never writes anything to the registry unless the Apply button is pressed, and then, it only writes settings for those values that have changed.
ArcMap assumes default values for non-existent registry settings. Most of the registry settings utilized are located in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. This means when a new user logs in and starts ArcMap, the registry keys do not exist and defaults for most settings are assumed. Not all registry keys utilized by the software are listed here; only the ones for which no user interface exists in the software for setting them.
The following format is used to describe registry items:
Value Type: Registry Path\Value Name
Description: Describes function and usage
The following registry keys and values are listed and described based on the tab in the ArcMap Advanced Settings utility. The tabs are listed in alphabetical order in this document.
COGO field mapping (7 registry keys)
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\COGOFeatureClass\Direction
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\COGOFeatureClass\Distance
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\COGOFeatureClass\Radius
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\COGOFeatureClass\Delta
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\COGOFeatureClass\Tangent
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\COGOFeatureClass\ArcLength
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\COGOFeatureClass\Side
Description: These values are strings of field names that the ArcMap Editor uses when it writes the COGO attributes of a line to the feature class. The fields are used by the Traverse tool, Inverse command and Proportion command. If there is no field mapping set, the following field names are used; Direction or Angle, Distance, Radius, Delta, Tangent, ArcLength and Side.
Topology and advanced editing settings (8 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Titus\ShowDirtyAreas
Description: This determines whether or not the dirty area symbol will be included when a topology layer is added to ArcMap. A value of 0 (default) means no dirty area symbol will appear and 1 means the dirty area symbol will appear in the topology layer.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Titus\ErrorWindowShown
Description: This determines what the position is of the error inspector dialog when the dialog is opened. A value of 0 means the error inspector will remember its previous position when it is opened and 1 (default) means the error window will be shown undocked when you open it.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Annotation\ShowFollowWarning
Description: For the Edit Annotation tool in Follow Feature Mode, this determines whether or not a warning is 20520m1218u shown if the feature that an annotation is following is outside the current map extent. A value of 0 means the warning will not be shown and 1 (default) means the warning will be shown. In both cases the Follow Feature Mode will be suspended.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Titus\PointErrorZoomFactor
Description: This is used to determine the extent of the map used when zooming to a single point error. The default value is 1/50 of the extent of the topology.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\AutoPanFactor
Description: This is a width in pixels that determines how close to the edge of the display the cursor needs to be before the display automatically pans. This functionality only works for the Sketch tool in the ArcMap Editor. The AutoPanTolerance setting also needs to be set for this functionality to work. The default is 10 pixels.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\AutoPanTolerance
Description: This is the distance in pixels that the display will pan once the cursor is within the AutoPanFactor distance. This functionality only works for the Sketch tool in the ArcMap Editor. The default is 0 pixels which disables this functionality.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\VertexSearchFactor
Description: This is a factor that is multiplied by the current snap tolerance setting to determine a distance to search for features to show their vertices. The factor is used when the v key is pressed with any standard editor tool. All vertices of features within "factor * snap tolerance" will be drawn. The default is 5.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Titus\TopologyControl Width
Description: This is the width in pixels of the Choose Topology control.
Data frame refresh rate
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Refresh Rate
Description: The default is 500. This is the number of milliseconds that ArcMap will use as an interval to check the display. The lower the number, the more smoothly ArcMap will appear to draw. This can also be used to synch ArcMap's refresh rate to a camera so that flickering can be eliminated. The valid range is 1-1000.
Default patch size and shape (4 registry keys)
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\PatchWidth
Description: The default for this is 12. This is the width of the default patch line. This can be customized in ArcMap (Tools | Options | TOC). This value is saved with a document; when the document is opened, the setting is restored. This registry setting (as with all patch width size and shape settings) sets the default for new documents only.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\PatchHeight
Description: The default for this is 12. This is the height of the default patch line. This can be customized in ArcMap (Tools | Options | TOC). This value is saved with a document; when the document is opened, the setting is restored. This registry setting (as with all patch width size and shape settings) sets the default for new documents only.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\LinePatch
Description: The default for this is Horizontal. This is the default patch line. This can be customized in ArcMap (Tools | Options | TOC). This value is saved with a document; when the document is opened, the setting is restored. This registry setting (as with all patch width size and shape settings) sets the default for new documents only.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\AreaPatch
Description: The default for this is Rectangle. This is the default patch shape. This can be customized in ArcMap (Tools | Options | TOC). This value is saved with a document; when the document is opened, the setting is restored. This registry setting (as with all patch width size and shape settings) sets the default for new documents only.
Display rotation alpha factor
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Rotation Alpha
Description: This sets the relative transparency of the superimposition of your data as you rotate it using the rotate tool on the data frame tools toolbar. Valid values range from 0 (completely transparent so you don't see what you're rotating) to 255 (where you only see what you're rotating). The default is 200, which makes the original data look faded out. A value of 100 will effectively reverse that effect.
Marker symbol rotation
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Symbology\Settings\RotateWithTransform
Description: The default value for this setting is 1, which means that marker symbols will rotate additionally with dataframe rotation. When set to 0, marker symbols will not rotate with data frame rotation and instead maintain their orientation with respect to the page.
Data and editing behavior (5 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\EmptyStringIsNull
Description: When editing attribute values ArcMap will assume that an empty string ("") really means Null if set to 1, or if set to 0, it really is an empty string.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\InitDefaultsOnSubtypeChange
Description: If this value is 1, the database will reinitialize values based on your subtype such that those values will be based on your new value, if 0, you will have to do this manually, or you continue to use the old values.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\StickyMoveTolerance
Description: This is the pixel tolerance that the mouse must move before a move operation starts when moving features.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\MaxDivisionPoints
Description: Maximum number of divisions a line can be divided into using the division tool.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Jet 4.0\MaxLocksPerFile
Description: If you are calculating more than 9,500 records against an Access database when inside of an edit session, the operation will abort because of the Jet engine lock count limitation. If you increase this value, you can calculate more features. Note: Changing this registry key requires administrative privileges.
User interface control size settings (3 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\SubtypeControl Width
Description: This is the width in pixels of the Subtype control.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\TaskControl Width
Description: This is the width in pixels of the Task control.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\ZControl Width
Description: This is the width in pixels of the Current Z control that is available in the customization dialog.
Variography
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\ESDA\Variography\Max_Input_Points
Description: By default, the semivariogram/covariance tools work with data sets having a maximum of 300 data points. This value was chosen for performance and for usability reasons. However, you may want to increase the maximum. If you do increase the maximum, you may experience slow performance with large data sets.
Voronoi map non-clustered data color
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\ESDA\Voronoi\Cluster_Color
Description: When creating a Voronoi map, if you set the type to Cluster, a polygon that has a value outside the range of all its neighbors will turn gray by default. This indicates that it may be an outlier or have a "no data" value.
Export to Grid default values (4 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Exp2GRID\Columns
Description: This is the default setting for the number of columns when exporting a geostatistical layer to GRID.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Exp2GRID\Rows
Description: This is the default setting for the number of rows when exporting a geostatistical layer to GRID.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Exp2GRID\Block_X
Description: This is the default setting for the size of the X block when exporting a geostatistical layer to GRID.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Exp2GRID\Block_Y
Description: This is the default setting for the size of the Y block when exporting a geostatistical layer to GRID.
Grid symbology default values (4 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Renderers\Grid\XSize
Description: This is the default grid X size setting for geostatistical layers.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Renderers\Grid\YSize
Description: This is the default grid Y size setting for geostatistical layers.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Renderers\Grid\XBlockSize
Description: This is the default setting for the size of the X block when exporting a geostatistical layer to GRID.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Renderers\Grid\YBlockSize
Description: This is the default setting for the size of the X block when exporting a geostatistical layer to GRID.
Hillshade symbology default values (5 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Renderers\Hillshade\GridX
Description: This is the default grid X size setting for hillshade geostatistical layers.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Renderers\Hillshade\GridY
Description: This is the default grid Y size setting for hillshade geostatistical layers.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Renderers\Hillshade\Ambient
Description: This is the default ambient setting for hillshade geostatistical layers.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Renderers\Hillshade\Diffuse
Description: This is the default diffuse setting for hillshade geostatistical layers.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\GeoStatisticalExtension\DefaultParams\Renderers\Hillshade\ZScale
Description: This is the default ZScale setting for hillshade geostatistical layers.
Default color palette and order of appearance (2 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Graphs\DefaultPaletteIndex
Description: This is the palette of colors that is selected from when a graph is created.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Graphs\DefaultColorTable
Description: This is a comma delimited set of numbers that represents the table of colors that are initially used to set the colors for graph bars, lines, points, etc. The first number in the string is the number of colors to follow. The colors are selected from the color palette indicated by the DefaultPaletteIndex setting above.
Maximum data points settings (2 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Graphs\BarColumnPieMaxDataPoints
Description: This is maximum number of features that can be shown in a Bar, Column, or Pie graph. This setting acts as a failsafe to keep the graph generation process from "hanging" in situations where large datasets have been chosen.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Graphs\MaxDataPoints
Description: This is maximum number of features that can be shown in graph types other than Bar, Column, or Pie. This setting acts as a failsafe to keep the graph generation process from hanging in situations where large datasets have been chosen.
Linear referencing (7 registry keys)
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\DynSeg\RouteField
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\DynSeg\FromField
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\DynSeg\ToField
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\DynSeg\MField
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\DynSeg\OffsetField
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\DynSeg\XField
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\DynSeg\YField
Description: These values are space-delimited strings of field names that ArcMap automatically uses to populate the linear referencing user interface if these fields are found the source table.
Identify route locations (2 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\DynSeg\IdentifyDecimalPlaces
Description: This controls the number of decimal places for numbers used on the Identify Route Locations dialog. Valid values are 0 to 10; anything else (or non-existent) will result in the default of 3 being used.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\DynSeg\ShowIdentifyRouteLabels
Description: This controls whether the 'route' and 'measure' text will be included when labeling route locations. If 0, then do not show labels; anything else (or non-existent) will show labels.
Hatching
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\DynSeg\HatchDefaultPrecision
Description: This controls the default precision of numbers in text for newly added hatch definitions. Valid values are 0 to 10; anything else (or non-existent) will result in the default of 2 being used.
Monitor settings (2 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Monitor\Height
Description: This is the height in millimeters of your monitor's display area. If monitor settings are not customized, ArcMap gets the dpi setting from your display driver to use for scaling purposes. Changing this setting to reflect the setting for your monitor will cause some things like legend items in the user interface to draw at their correct size. Click the Get monitor dimensions button to query your display driver for monitor dimensions. Note that this retrieves only the dimensions your display driver thinks are right. For a more accurate value, use a ruler to physically measure the display area of your monitor. To delete customized monitor settings, click the Delete customized settings button.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Monitor\Width
Description: This is the width in millimeters of your monitor's display area. If monitor settings are not customized, ArcMap gets the dpi setting from your display driver to use for scaling purposes. Changing this setting to reflect the setting for your monitor will cause some things like legend items in the user interface to draw at their correct size. Click the Get monitor dimensions button to query your display driver for monitor dimensions. Note that this retrieves only the dimensions your display driver thinks are right. For a more accurate value, use a ruler to physically measure the display area of your monitor. To delete customized monitor settings, click the Delete customized settings button.
Printer settings
(This ArcMap 8.x feature is no longer available in ArcMap 9.x)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Disable Paper Message Box
Description: This sets whether the user is warned (1), or not (0) when ArcMap starts up and cannot find a printer from which to derive the page size for a new document's layout or a printer for an existing document. The purpose is to allow developers to create applications that export maps automatically and do not need to have a printer in order set the page size.
Hyperlink base
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\HyperlinkBase
Description: This sets whether to disable inserting a slash separator between the hyperlink base and the link (1), or not disable (0).
Working with data (4 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\SkipDatumCheck
Description: This turns on (0) or off (1) the check that ArcMap makes when data is added to the map. The check reports when the reported datum of one or more data sources is missing or different than the display datum.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Garcia\WarnSpatialRefMismatch
Description: If this value is 1, ArcMap displays a warning message when editing datasets with unmatched coordinate systems. If the value is 0, the warning message is not displayed.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\MaxNumOverflowLabels
Description: This determines the maximum number of labels that the overflow window can display. The purpose is to keep large labeling jobs, whether intended or accidental, from causing ArcMap to take all the memory on the machine and then crash the machine. The way this works is that if ArcMap determines there are more than this number of unplaced labels, it stops tracking the unplaced labels and does not return any labels to the overflow window.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\MaxNumCachedImages
Description: This is the number of images that ArcMap tracks in the Temporary Internet Files directory so that when the user uses the zoom forward and backward buttons, ArcMap doesn't need to actually go back to the IMS server for the image-saving time. Set this to 0 (zero) if you do not want caching to be turned on.
License timeout warning
REG_SZ: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ESRI\License\TimeoutWarning
Description: This setting determines whether or not you will be warned, starting 15 days prior to your license or evaluation license expiration, for any ArcGIS application or extension timing out. The default value is True (written as a string). Note: Changing this registry key requires administrative privileges.
Buffer wizard (3 registry keys)
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\wizards\Buffer Dialog\Ring Shape Type
Description: This has two possible values. One is Rings (the default), which causes the buffer wizard to create rings the width of the specified buffers around features. The other is Disks, which causes the buffer wizard to create disks that overlap the shape that is buffered, extending beyond that shape for the distance of the specified buffer.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Wizards\Buffer Dialog\Processing Spatial Reference
Description: The buffer wizard, in order to minimize distortion, processes buffers using a temporary coordinate system. This is the spatial reference in which buffers are constructed. Buffers can be processed using 4 different methods. The default method, the Feature set optimized coordinate system method, creates a temporary spatial reference base on the spatial distribution of all the features being buffered. The Feature optimized coordinate system method creates temporary spatial references for each feature being buffered (this method provides the least distortion of the 4 but takes the longest to process). The Coordinate system of the data frame (output) uses the spatial reference of the data frame. This method produces buffers that are uniform (not distorted). This method would be used for creating cartographic effects like a coastline vignette. Finally, the Coordinate system of the feature class (input) method uses the spatial reference feature class.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Wizards\Buffer Dialog\Simplify Shapes During Processing
Description: The buffering of very complex shapes may lead to unexpected results. Checking the 'Force geometric simplification during buffer processing' check box (a registry value or 1) forces the application to re-evaluate (i.e., simplify) geometric structures of the buffered shapes. Using this approach will add time to the buffering process.
Default resampling mode
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Raster\ResampleMode
Description: This setting is used to control initial raster display resampling. A value of 0 (default) is nearest neighbor resampling for all rasters; 1 causes bilinear interpolation to be used only on continuous rasters, and 2 causes cubic convolution to be used only on continuous rasters.
On-the-fly raster table building
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Raster\FileSystemTableMode
Description: A value of 0 (default) means to build tables when necessary but not persist them. This has the least impact on your file system. A value of 1 means to build tables and persist them. And 2 means to never build tables, which guarantees that no table can be overwritten.
Rasters in an ArcSDE Geodatabase
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Raster\SDETableMode
Description: A value of 0 (default) means not to build tables. The only other valid value is 1, which means to build tables but do not persist them.
Maximum table size
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Raster\MaxUniqueValues4TransientTable
Description: This is a value used to control the maximum number or rows that a raster's table can have. The default value is 2048, and cannot be set higher than 4096.
Drawing block option
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Raster\DrawingMode
Description: This setting is used to control the type of screen drawing rasters use. A value of 1 (default) is top-to-bottom-progressive-row mode, 0 is left-to-right-progressive-block mode, and 2 is full-raster-at-once refresh mode.
Raster unique value limit
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Raster\UniqueValueDefaultRenderer_ValuesLimit
Description: This is a value used to control the maximum number of values that ArcMap will use the Unique Value renderer on. By default this is set to 25, whereby any dataset with >26 values will use the Stretched renderer instead. An error is displayed if you enter a value outside the range 1-256.
Proxy file location
REG_SZ: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ESRI\Raster\Environment\TmpDir
Description: This determines the location where auxiliary and pyramid proxy files are created and stored. Proxy files are created on read-only raster data, raster data that is located on read-only media or within a read-only folder. Note: Changing this registry key requires administrative privileges.
All users (4 registry keys)
REG_SZ: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\StyleDir
Description: This tells ArcMap the location of .style files. ArcMap will display all .style files found in this folder in the place users can reference styles. Note: Changing this registry key requires administrative privileges.
REG_SZ: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\TemplateDir
Description: This tells ArcMap the location of the template files. Note: Changing this registry key requires administrative privileges.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\arcinfo\locator\Settings\LocatorDirectory
Description: This tells ArcMap and ArcCatalog the locations for locator files. Note: Changing this registry key requires administrative privileges.
REG_SZ: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Geography Network\URL
Description: This is the URL that ArcMap will use to connect to the Geography Network, or a site that is set up to work like the geography network. Note: Changing this registry key requires administrative privileges.
Current user (2 registry keys)
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Reference Systems\Predefined Path
Description: This tells ArcMap the location of the coordinate systems.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\PrintTmpDir
Description: This path is where temporary files will be written during the printing process.
Symbol defaults (5 registry keys)
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\ColorRamp\DefaultRamp
Description: This is the name of the default color ramp that the Quantities, graduated colors symbology user interface uses.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\ColorRamp\DefaultScheme
Description: This is the name of the default color scheme that the Categories, unique values symbology user interface uses.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\Display\Background RGB
Description: This is the color ("RRR GGG BBB") that ArcMap will use as the background for its display.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Symbol Defaults\MarkerSize
Description: This will be the size of marker symbols for point data when initially added to ArcMap.
REG_SZ: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Symbol Defaults\LineWidth
Description: This will be the width of line symbols for line data when initially added to ArcMap.
Selection feedback rectangle outline symbol (3 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\LineFeedbackStyle
Description: This is the style of the line symbol used for the line symbol for the outline of the selection rectangle used to select graphics or features. The styles match the ISimpleLine style enumerations.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\LineFeedbackWidth
Description: This is the line width of the symbol used for selecting rectangles for the graphics and feature selection tools. This is also the line width of the edit sketch. If this value exceeds 1, the dash- or dot-patterns will not be shown.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\LineFeedbackColor
Description: This is the RGB value of the color for the line symbols used for the outline of the rectangle used to select graphics or features.
Creating graphic shapes
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\KeepDrawingToolActive
Description: This changes the behavior of ArcMap after the construction of a graphic shape has been completed using one of the drawing tools. If the value is 1, the tool remains active, allowing the user to immediately add another graphic shape of the same kind. If the value is 0 (default), the selection tool is reactivated after adding a shape.
Label annotation (3 registry keys)
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Annotation\RotateSymbolsOnTheFly
Description: This determines whether or not text labels should be rotated with data frame rotation. A value of 0 (default) means no rotation and 1 means rotation. Created when labeling is applied (Layer Properties à Labels tab).
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Annotation\RotateSymbolsOnConvert
Description: Determines whether or not text annotation should be rotated with data frame rotation. This is set only when you convert labels to annotation in ArcMap (right-click on layer > Convert Labels to Annotation), or when you create a new feature-linked annotation feature class in ArcCatalog. 0 means do not rotate annotation when the data frame rotates, and 1 (default) means do rotate the annotation.
REG_DWORD: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcMap\Settings\Annotation\DensifyAnnoBaseline
Description: Determines whether or not straight annotation text should be curved when projected. 0 (default) means do not densify. This means that only the endpoints of straight annotation will be projected when the annotation is displayed in a map with a different coordinate system. 1 means that the baseline of straight annotation will be densified. These intermediate points are projected to provide a "curved" effect when the annotation is displayed in a map with a different coordinate system.
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