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 ...

I vividly recall my first encounter with the Windows Registry. It was around a decade ago, while I was troubleshooting an ...

If your Windows 11 laptop or desktop PC is a little sluggish and could do with a little performance boost. In this guide, you will learn how to use advanced Windows 11 registry changes to improve your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...