How to change your Studio's install channel

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A lesser known feature of Roblox’s development is it’s “channel” feature. This was already switchable with Clone’s RSMM, however it’s possible to switch channels without needing a third-party tool.

So how do we do this? It’s pretty simple, you only need to change one key in the registry to set your channel. You can access the registry by searching for regedit

Warning: Development builds of Studio may be unstable. Also be careful with regedit since you can break Windows.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ROBLOX Corporation\Environments\RobloxStudio\Channel\www.roblox.com
You can change this to any channel that is known, such as ZIntegration or ZCanary, which are both development channels, leaving it blank will default to the current LIVE channel.

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This registry setting is used to target a development channel to install from with the launcher.

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@metatablecatmaid Can you explain why this is useful?

You are explaining how to do this, without explaining the what and the why part’s, which makes this Tutorial a bit Vague.

Like:

  • What is this “Studio Install Channel”?
    What is it in general? why is it important?

  • What does it do?
    When I make this Change, what will it affect? Better yet, What does it affect Before I do it?
    You only partially Explained this:

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