Here's a lesson I learned very early on in my PC adventures—when it comes to the Windows registry, tread very carefully. While individual entries can be modified to do a number of useful things, ...

Let’s start with a little quiz. I say, “Big, bloated, and full of errors.” What do you say? Right, “Windows Registry.” One more: “Messing with it is risky.” If you guessed the registry again, you pass ...

The Registry Editor is a powerful application that allows you to access and edit the configuration settings of the Windows operating system. The Windows Registry is a database containing various ...

A version of this article appears in the November 2006 issue of Streaming Media magazine. Click here for your free subscription. After a relatively quiet 2005, 2006 brings some big improvements to ...

There's nothing more mysterious on a Windows PC than the Registry, and today we'll explain exactly what it is, how it works, and whether you should bother cleaning it. We'll also go about debunking a ...

Windows and most applications save their configuration in the registry database — or registry, for short. Whenever you change a setting, this affects the corresponding value in the registry, but there ...

This article is excerpted from the book Microsoft Windows 7 Your Way: Speed Up and Customize Windows from Que Publishing. Reprinted with permission of Pearson Education Inc., copyright 2010. Every ...

If you plan on tweaking any version of Windows, you’re going to have to get friendly with the Windows Registry, a database of information that defines how your PC works, including every part of ...

How to enable hidden personalization themes in Windows 11 22H2 Your email has been sent New personalization themes are available for Windows 11 22H2 but only if you tweak the Windows 11 Registry File ...

You should probably leave your registry alone, but if you absolutely must clean it, here's how to do so safely. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

For certain “power” users of Microsoft Windows 10, speed is the most important factor when it comes to measuring computer performance. For those individuals, nothing their PC does is ever fast enough ...