Registry History

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The Windows registry should not be a rare term for many PC veterans who have been living in the GUI era, especially in the instance that your desktop applications are hijacked by certain hazardous programs while no anti-virus program has been present, and you have to do repair your registry by hand [...]

Using Registry Editor

Registry Editor is the tool you use to edit the registry directly. You change the registry every time you log on to the computer, but you do it indirectly through Control Panel or the Run dialog box, which updates the registry’s list of programs that you’ve run recently.
With Registry Editor, you affect settings without the [...]

Maintaining the Registry

How can you backup and restore the Registry? Windows 95
Microsoft included a utility on the Windows 95 CD-ROM that lets you create backups of the Registry on your computer. The Microsoft Configuration Backup program, CFGBACK.EXE, can be found in the \Other\Misc\Cfgback directory on the Windows 95 CD-ROM. This utility lets you create up to nine [...]

Importing and Exporting Registry Settings

A great feature of the Registry Editor is it’s ability to import and export registry settings to a text file, this text file, identified by the .REG extension, can then be saved or shared with other people to easily modify local registry settings. You can see the layout of these text files by simply exporting [...]

Editing the Registry

The Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE) is included with most version of Windows (although you won’t find it on the Start Menu) it enables you to view, search and edit the data within the Registry. There are several methods for starting the Registry Editor, the simplest is to click on the Start button, then select Run, and [...]

The Structure of the Registry

The Registry has a hierarchal structure, although it looks complicated the structure is similar to the directory structure on your hard disk, with Regedit being similar to Windows Explorer.

[font_body]Each main branch (denoted by a folder icon in the Registry Editor, see left) is called a Hive, and Hives contains Keys. Each key can contain other [...]

What is the Registry?

What & Whereabouts
What is registry really? The registry is the heart and soul of windows-based operating systems, available in the earlier Windows 95,98,ME,NT/2000,2003 and XP, and the later star Vista of Microsoft. That is, the registry is key of importance for windows-based users, though you don’t even notice a bit while you’re editing a document, [...]