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Change Shared Drive icon in Windows 10 with Registry setting
I want to make my desktop look a little more to my liking, and that includes changing some of the icons. One of the icons I want to change is the shared drive icon:
I want to do this using the ...
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Where are windows 10 cached domain credentials stored at? [closed]
I am using windows 10 Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045 on a domain controlled device. It is my personal device. I use registry to look for keys but turned empty.
I need help on where the cached domain ...
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How can I override the win 11 default simplified task manager view by editing the windows registry?
I'm writing a tool to fix various windows annoyances, but I'm having trouble with the Windows Task Manager.
One of the first things I do on a new machine is to expand the task manager so it looks like ...
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Change URL path in Registry
I need to find in the registry the location of a file which can update a URL. Right-clicking on the shortcut, select Properties > Target. There is a URL, https://test.domain.com.
I need to update ...
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Starting a program from the CLI with some File Properties Options activated
Start a program from the CLI with some File Properties Options activated
I want to start from the CLI automatically a graphical application with a File properties flag setted.
High DPI scalling ...
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How to Remove Preferred Languages from Microsoft Edge using PowerShell
I am trying to manage the preferred languages in my Microsoft Edge browser on Windows using PowerShell. Specifically, I want to remove certain languages that appear in the "edge://settings/...
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How to get Windows always prompt an "open with" dialog?
As said, I want my Windows to always send me to "Open With" dialog, when I try to open a file.
There is a similar XPosed module for Android, named Kill Domain Verification, but it's working ...
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How can I restore all Programs from a corrupt Windows 10 System to a new Install of Win 10
I have a corrupt Windows 10 (in Windows.old) and could install a new entity of Windows 10 in Windows on C:.
Can I restore all Programs from my windows.old by transferring the Registry hive under ...
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Cannot Delete Registry Keys
I am trying to delete the registry keys provided in the attachment below in order to change the order of other context menu values but regedit prevents me from doing it.
What I have tried:
Running ...
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Why can some HKLM entries be read on 64-bit PCs but some cannot from VB6
So our software is used by one of our customers on legacy Windows versions because they're in an industrial,air-gaped setting and they have Windows XP and a bunch of old servers that are the only ...
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Edit Windows Registry to turn off Outlook Calendar Feature: "Shorten appointments and meetings"
Is there a way to edit the windows registry to turn off the Outlook Calendar Feature: "Shorten appointments and meetings"? I don't want my meetings to automatically end early but I am unable ...
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Windows registry migration
I have a 32 bit VC++ application and its registry is created under 32 bit registry hive :
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\<company>\<product>
Now I'm migrating to 64 bit version of my ...
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Deleting a user login name from the start window in windows 10
When Logging in I accidentally started a new login. I never completed it but now when I login the second name appears in the list of login options. Now I must click on my login name to complete the ...
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Some .exe files have blank icons on taskbar despite having icons
Most of games I install are GOG versions and the installers generate loads of unnecessary files, all have uninstallers, and if I want to uninstall, I will just delete the installation folder. I use ...
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Issues with unlinking OneDrive account from folders - alphanumeric keys in registry
I did a clean install of Windows 11. I didn't experience this issue before since I would do an "offline" setup of Windows without an account login, but it's a pain to do this with Windows 11....
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Uninstalling a device in Windows 10
I have the devices below, but when I right-click uninstall in Device Manager, it uninstalls correctly, reappearing when I refresh the list of devices.
Is there a way to uninstall the device from the ...
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How to remove Home Gallery from Windows 11 Explorer
I want this section removed from Windows 11 Explorer:
The registry method to remove the key on [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace_41040327] did ...
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Where are all installed Windows quality update KB IDs stored in the Windows Registry?
Where are all installed Windows quality update KB IDs stored in the Windows Registry?
Are all Windows quality update KBs all stored in the same place in the Windows Registry, or is it necessary to use ...
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Is it possible to replace the Windows shell with Steam to launch to Big Picture faster, and have Explorer.exe load after Steam launches automatically?
I have a Steam Deck which I dual-booted to Windows. I'm trying to accomplish a facsimile to "game mode" on Steam OS.
I want to boot to big picture automatically/extremely quickly so it ...
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Hide the welcome logon screen on Windows 10 Pro
A few weeks ago, I was able to prevent the "welcome logon screen" to be displayed on a Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC (see the details in How to totally remove the Windows 10 login screen?):
It ...
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How to force Windows file explorer to display files that have invalid names?
I was searching journals on a research topic. I eventually got to some old exotic site containing a zip file which according to the description contained multiple documents. However when I unzipped it ...
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Faults in Windows Updates Services and more on Windows 11
My friend's been having issues with his computer when trying to update to 23H2. Initially this started with a "Something went wrong. Try to reopen Settings later." message. After digging ...
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Can I use regedit to change the wallpaper path on windows 10 enterprise?
I just purchased a second hand HP Elitebook but it looks like it was an ex-lease model and has windows 10 enterprise installed. I can't personalize the PC because enterprise isn't activated (...
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How to make the AltTabPreview smaller on Windows 11?
So far I have this reg code:
'''Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MultitaskingView\AltTabViewhost]
"Grid_leftmargin"=...
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When can/should a Windows service Start type be "Boot" or "System" instead of "Automatic"?
While running the Services.msc GUI offers the ability to manually set a Windows service start type to Automatic, Automatic (Delayed start), Manual, or Disabled, the configuration of services is stored ...
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Win 11 Registry Edit - Verification/Translators?
There is a homebrew registry patch going around which adds a 1600x900 display setting to the new ROG Ally Handheld PC.
The registry edit:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...
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How to change windows win key + w shortcut without Autohotkey?
I want to press "windows + w" and it opens a specific folder.
I don't want to use third parties softwares.
I want to replicate "windows + e" but with "windows + w"
I've ...
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HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\open\command but per user
I use a third party file manager instead of Windows explorer and set it by adding the key [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\open\command] to the registry and it works like a charm.
But now I need to ...
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How to persistently modify Windows 11 bootable USB/ISO to bypass requirements instead of opening regedit each time?
I was thinking how does the new option in Rufus (the bootable media creation tool) to bypass windows 11 requirements work, as earlier, I had to open regedit each time and insert registry values for ...
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Windows blocks downloads from server "Blocked by your organization"
I recently started having an issue on Windows 11 where when I try downloading a file, all of my browsers refuse to do so displaying this: (images are from Chrome)
As you can see, files that I try to ...
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Is it possible to make a Windows program's browse dialogue (not just explorer windows), default to quick access shortcuts?
In windows, there's a folder option that lets you change the default behavior of the left pane, to default to either "This PC" or "Quick Access".
The problem I have is, this doesn'...
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Can I copy the windows registry configuration from one user to another?
My normal Windows 10 user account (non admin) has some issues with corrupted registry entries.
I have a couple of admin accounts where everything is fine and I would like to restore the values from ...
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How to get all information concerning a Windows service?
On one computer, a Windows service is created.
I have tried to create the same one on another computer, but this seems not to work.
In order to solve my issue, I'm planning to ask for all Windows ...
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Is there a way to prevent new profiles being added on chrome windows using registry editor?
I went here Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome and created a Dword 32-bit value with the name BrowserAddPersonEnabled & value 1.
This worked well but after I stopped Edge ...
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Prevent Windows 10 Restart, Shutdown or Hibernate while backup process active
Is there any way I can prevent all Windows users from accidentally shutting down a Windows 10 Pro machine by going to Win-Start Menu -> e.g. Restart, Shutdown or Hibernate and clicking on it while ...
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Is there an easy way to move startup entries from HKLM to HKCU using Autoruns64.exe?
There are a few programs with Registry startup entries I don't want to start on all user accounts within:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Using AutoRuns64, or anything ...
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What should I do if explorer is absolutely corrupted
So, this all started when there was an old shortcut in explorer that wouldn't go away. It was OneDrive - Personal. I didn't need it because I already had my business OneDrive. It was below Home and in ...
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Search Issue After Disabling Windows 11 Bing Search
I have encountered a problem where I couldn't access environment variables after disabling Bing search via:
+ R → Open: regedit → OK
Created new DWORD BingSearchEnabled with value 0 within:
HKCU\...
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How do I remove Windows user shell folders in Windows 11? [closed]
OneDrive is a cancer on my computer that I just can't get rid of.
I uninstalled OneDrive, but Windows still insists on automatically creating these folders after I delete them.
After some Googling I ...
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Windows modify system files once reboot or shutdown button pressed
Is there any way to modify a system file when the reboot/shutdown button is pressed without using an external tool like a Linux live CD?
I came across a post that suggested modifying a registry value ...
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How do I permanently disable Windows (system) from creating new values in the registry? [duplicate]
I'm having to remove/delete these two registry values every time.. (d0010409 and 00000409)
The values you see in the picture are language input English US keyboards that I don't need, since I already ...
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Is there a registry key for setting default save location of application like notepad?
How to set the default save location for notepad application (or any other application like word) to downloads folder, i.e whenever i try to save a file or open a file using notepad i want file ...
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Why does regedit.exe have HKCU permission for importing but reg.exe does not?
I have a .reg file with current user values. If I use reg.exe in a bat file to import it says:
ERROR: Error accessing the registry.
If I use regedit.exe there are no issues. For regedit.exe I use:
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Will unspecified keys and sub-entries be kept unchanged when double click reg file?
Suppose there is a .reg file that specifies a registry entry with partial keys and values. This registry entry actually has much more keys, values and sub-entries stored in behind as shown in RegEdit....
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windows scrollbars changed to very thin, registry changes keep reverting
Suddenly vertical and horizontal scrollbars became very thin. Impossible to read excel tab names as they are in the scrollbar.
Changing the Registry entry as advised in How to Customize the Scrollbars ...
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Run Single Instance of CMD via Registry for Multiple Files?
I have written a script to convert images with DirectXTex. I use %* in the command inside the script to handle however many files I pass to it by directly dragging multiple files onto it directly. It ...
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Windows Process-Wide Security for Java via registry keys
My goal is to configure COM/DCOM security for my Java OPC DA client (not server).
The main problem is that every time the client tries to get updates from a OPC DA server in asynchronous mode, it ...
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"The configuration registry database is corrupt" when putting in "netsh http show ssl" on administrator command prompt
I've been trying to fix this error:
An error occurred while using SSL configuration for endpoint Type=0 Index=0. The error status code is contained within the returned data. (Event 15021)
From the ...
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How can I get the windows AutoLogon password?
I have a computer with configured Auto-Logon.
After a restart of Windows it automatically performs a login with a predefined user.
I would also like to connect via Remote Desktop to this computer. But ...
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Can %~n1 be Used in the Registry?
I am currently trying to integrate a program into my shell, the program in question is a CLI tool that has multiple options for files passed to it. I know that it is possible to run 'code' in the ...
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