What is the Windows Registry? Think of it as the “brains” of your Windows installation. Specifically, it’s a giant warehouse, a single, easy-to-access, hierarchical database that stores each of your ...

The Windows Registry contains information pertaining to drivers and related settings for hardware components; key OS parameters; information about services, protocols, and application data; and much, ...

On Windows 7 you can easily disable access to the registry editor which restricts and limits access to the registry system. This is important as it prevents remote (sometimes unskilled) users from ...

Registry edits without cold sweats. Who knew.

Perhaps it's because Windows is such a robust operating system, or perhaps it's just because Microsoft keeps layering new features over the old, but there's usually more than one way to get things ...

Microsoft is getting really, really annoying with its push to get people running Windows 7 and 8.1 to upgrade to Windows 10. In fact, Microsoft recently expanded its upgrade prompts to Windows “Pro” ...

Windows is slow. Yes, we know. But if someone hasn’t moved off Windows already, it’s usually for a reason. That means there’s only one real way forward: learn to live with Windows. Some tweaks require ...