Over time, uninstalling applications, altering system settings, removing hardware and making other changes to Windows Vista can damage the integrity of the registry, leaving behind abandoned keys ...

Windows Registry or simply registry is a repository that stores low-level configurations and settings associated with the Windows operating system and its various programs. It’s one of those system ...

Windows only: RegScanner, a free Windows utility, makes it easier to find registry keys and make quick edits to them. We've offered up a fair share of registry hacks over the years, and many of them, ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

A hidden Windows registry tweak can unlock serious SSD speed gains—but one wrong move could leave your PC unbootable.

Microsoft .Net enables you to access the Windows Registry programmatically to store and retrieve data. The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that comprises of a collection of Keys, Sub Keys, ...

When old computers used mechanical hard drives as their boot drives, it is conceivable that a large registry could have ...

Microsoft is blocking Windows 11 upgrades if customers use applications that create registry keys using some non-ASCII characters. As the company explains, on impacted systems such apps might be ...

Knowing a printer's registry key is necessary if you're trying to remove a printer from your computer and it won't delete or if you want to make advanced manual configuration changes to a printer.

The Windows Registry is a graphical application that maintains the database of all the configuration settings, stores information of hardware and system options. In other words, the Windows Registry ...

Microsoft has added a new and very important detail on the support page describing incompatibilities between antivirus (AV) products and the recent Windows Meltdown and Spectre patches. According to ...