Before making any changes to the Windows registry, it is crucial to back it up to prevent potential issues. This summary guides you through the steps to safely back up your Windows registry. This ...

Mention “the registry” to PC users, and they’ll probably think of standing in line for license plates, not the set of configuration files built into Microsoft Corp.’s operating systems. And Microsoft ...

This post shows how to fix the Registry Editor cannot rename the specified key; name already exists error. Windows sometimes throws an error message when you try to ...

Close non-responsive programs automatically, adjust the position of your desktop wallpaper, and prevent specific programs from appearing on the Start menu's most-frequent list. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

In this article, we will show you how to disable the Windows Hello PIN prompt on Windows 10. Windows Hello is an alternative password option that is available only in ...

Microsoft’s latest and greatest operating systems – Windows XP Professional and Windows .NET Server (currently in release candidate status) – offer a breadth of new command line utilities that will ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to disable (again) the blur effect on the Windows 11 login screen Your email has been sent We used a Registry File hack in Windows 10 to disable the blur effect on the login screen, but the ...

“Centralized configuration database” is Microsoft’s long and rather more formal way of saying “registry” – that somewhat eccentric hierarchical database that now has a pivotal role in Windows ...