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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, ...

Everywhere you turn you find someone telling everyone to stay clear of the Registry. While I agree with this to an extent, I have come to realize that a lot of what we do involves the Registry whether ...

There are several steps that you can take to edit the registry for a DVD drive on your computer if Windows does not recognize it. In some cases, problems may occur if you tried to upgrade your ...

Stop letting automatic updates ruin your workflow. These Registry tweaks help you regain control over Windows update behavior for good.

I have a troublesome XP Pro machine that continually reboots, doesn't get too far past the splash screen. From what I have read, XP now automatically reboots after a STOP (aka BSOD) error, preventing ...

The Windows Registry is a powerful but confusing component of the Windows operating system. In earlier editions of Windows, editing the Registry was fraught with peril; if the user edited it with the ...

I need to make some changes to the registry on a ton of machines so I'm trying to figure out how to do it in a batch file. Google wasn't much help. I'm new to writing batch files so I need a bit of ...

Are you looking for a quick way to deal with a driver that’s hanging your system? If Windows NT is running but the user interface isn’t functioning, chances are that NT’s 32-bit network services are ...

The registry is the path that stores options for a Windows operating system. It helps you to trace and access files. The computer registry is a place where all the information is stored about how a ...

Since this was an advanced feature, Microsoft didn’t include it in the Home & Starter editions of Windows. But there might be some scenarios where you wish to modify policy settings in Microsoft ...