Questions tagged [windows-registry]
Window registry is a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It contains settings for low-level operating system components as well as the applications running on the platform: the kernel, device drivers, services, SAM, user interface and third party applications all make use of the Registry.
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Shell Bags Registry Hacks
Windows often decides for itself against the will of the user how a folder should be presented. Despite the various "official" methods to ensure Windows displays folders exactly as the user ...
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Registry contains thousands of non-ASCII entries
Something created thousands of weird entries in my registry (Windows 10) in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Virtually all of them consist of 4 characters and have no sub-keys and there are more than 20.000 of them....
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Filter informations in regedit (Batch)
I made a script that retransmits values from regedit to a .txt file. I would like to know if it is possible to filter the "Exe History - Store" information that is written in the .txt (the ...
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Purpose of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\<SID> - "IsUpgrade"
I just came across a workstation with MANY keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion. I'm familiar with the ProfileList and ProfileGUID subkeys, but was srpprised to ...
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Issue with reg add command for automating desktop icon selections
I am looking for some help on what is causing my batch file to not execute the following commands. I am trying to change the desktop icons for mass automation for imaging. There is a lot more to the ...
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PowerShell / Registry: Remove the "Activate Windows" watermark for Windows Sandbox
The "Activate Windows" watermark is used by Microsoft to track unlicensed copies of Windows; this is important for them and I have no issue with that. However, for Windows Sandbox, we are ...
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How to delete WOW64 related entries with Autoruns?
I have the following entries in Autoruns, but can't delete them because of access denied error
What are them and how to force?
Am running Autoruns as administrator.
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Custom entry in Windows Explorer navigation pane
Does anybody know, how to create new entry in explorer navigation pane, just below new Home entry?
I already wrote a code which can create custom entry, and already tried setting different ...
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Win 11 Regedit - set Default app for HTTP / HTTPS launch from app (e.g. npm run serve)
I want a specific web browser to open when a Windows app calls to open a web browser. I've seen various solutions specific to Chrome, for example, but I'm not interested in Chrome-specific solutions.
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How to make right-click menu wait for each file to be processed?
I have created a right-click menu item based on this answer to run a batch file. This batch file runs a command which does some processing on the file. However, if I select multiple files, I see a ...
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Where does LogMeIn Control Panel store the control panel settings?
I am trying to script some aspects of installing LogMeIn Control Panel on industrial workstations running Windows 10 that may or may not have internet access once commissioned. Namely, I am trying to ...
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Is it possible to repair damaged win 11 registry(won't start) by creating new same version windows 11 on Virtual Machine and copying that registry
I got error message on win 11 "The operating system could not be loaded because the system registry file is missing or contains errors."
File ... system32/config/system
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In Windows 11, what's the registry key that controls whether "details" side panel in Explorer is shown?
I frequently do in-place upgrade to Windows 11 since Windows Update doesn't work on my PC. After each upgrade, the "detail" tile on the right side of explorer will be hidden and I have to ...
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Can't access network locations after editing windows 10 registry
I wanted to remove the network icon from the Windows 10 explorer and in order to do that I read that I had to edit the windows registry I followed the steps in this website also took ownership of the ...
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Where is the notepad icon located in the registry in Windows 11?
I want to change the default Notepad++ icon to the default notepad icon in Windows 11. But I can't find its location in the registry. How to find the default notepad icon path in Windows 11?
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Offical Souce For Windows Version Format [closed]
Windows' versioning structure has changed many times over the years. Over that time registry values have come and gone, and some still remain but contain old data. I would like a source that tells me ...
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Windows Terminal WSL2 profile shortcut not highlighted in taskbar when opened
I have a shortcut for a WSL2 profile in Windows Terminal (Windows 10) pinned to the taskbar. The command is of the form wt.exe -p "Fedora 36" where the profile executes the command wsl.exe ~ ...
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Unable to uninstall a font in Windows 10 - SOLVED (ish)
UPDATE: When I went back to get screenshots, without me doing anything, the font, along with two others I was trying to track origins for, had disappeared.
I do not know for sure, but right now I'm ...
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PowerShell / Registry, change to Best Performance, and activate the change
The following is listed on various sites to switch to Best Performance mode (under This Computer Properties > Advanced system settings > Performance). On running this nothing happens. I can see ...
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How to force Windows to rerun the user profile setup/upgrade procedure manually?
I was running Windows 11, but I guess this applies to Windows 10 as well.
I had a semi-broken user-profile on Windows 11 (start menu not opening, the whole taskbar reverted to the Win10 variant ...
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PowerShell, how to disable Xbox Game Bar?
I really need to disable the Xbox Game Bar with PowerShell. There are many articles on how to delete/uninstall the Xbox Game Bar but that does not work for me as I need this inside Windows Sandbox (...
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System folders (Downloads, etc.) with blank names
For some reason I have duplicates of my "Downloads", "Documents" and other system folders in "This PC" that have blank names and are inusable. Clicking on them does ...
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Disable Outlook "Top Results" / "show most relevant search results on top" via PowerShell / Registry / Group Policy
I am unable to find a way to disable the Microsoft Outlook search option "show most relevant search results on top" via a systematic / automated approach so that I can deploy this to all of ...
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Trouble with registry key updating/uninstalling iTunes
I am trying to update iTunes and the updater fails. So I then decided to manually download the installer, however it then throws an error saying it could not open the registry key HKLM\Software\...
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Enviroment variable doesn't change in CMD and programs [duplicate]
I changed enviroment variable in Windows (user variable as well as system variable, to eliminate overwriting etc). I did it from "Edit the system enviroment variables" and from Registry ...
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I'm Using disk2vhd and virtualbox. How do I disable Windows XP IDE checks so that it starts up without an IDE related BSOD?
I am setting up a virtual machine to host a Windows XP environment with specific legacy software to replace a customer's broken Dell MTC2 desktop. I used Disk2vhd to generate a VHD from the customer's ...
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how to map combination keys Fn+Fx to other keys in win10 without any 3rd-party application
I tried to map the total twelve Fn+Fx combination keys on my A4Tech kv-300 USB keyboard, like Fn+F12, to other keys, like enter key, in win10 according to Microsoft's doc but failed, although other ...
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its possible, and how if yes, create exceptions for ValidateAdminCodeSignatures registry value enabled?
modifying the ValidateAdminCodeSignatures value contained in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Windows enforce PKI signature checks on any interactive ...
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setting Adobe Acrobat as the default with registry
Just looking for registry entries that I can set Adobe Reader as the default and to change from Edge. I was hoping not to create an XML script and create a new GPO. Just figured that the registry ...
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How to disable editing registry by standard user in Win 7
In the past a standard user in my Win 7 was not able to edit such registry key as HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules.
But now I see that it's ...
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Default windows hidden files systems
During my learning of how named pipes works inside Windows, I've found this explanation :
Every pipe is placed in the root directory of the named pipe
filesystem (NPFS), mounted under the special ...
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Can't Remove Bluetooth Device despite no entry in registry
I have a machine running windows 10.
I am trying to remove a bluetooth device and reconnect it. At the start, when I tried to remove the device through the windows' settings I got the message that &...
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Windows 10 resisting configuration to delete pagefile on shutdown
Why would Windows 10 resist its configuration to delete its pagefile on shutdown?
The configuration is:
Windows 10 guest on an Ubuntu 22.04 host running VMware Workstation Player 16.2.4.
The Windows ...
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Change Outlook calendar default option when editing meeting requests
I use Outlook from Office 365 to manage meetings with other people. Sometimes, after a meeting is set on our Outlook calendars, I want to edit notes associated with the meeting — but I don't want the ...
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Registry key "protocols" empty
Im checking a windows 2019 server and the key "protocols" is empty
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols
On my Windows 10 also is ...
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How to run python script on windows startup by setting registry key?
I need to run python with script on windows startup ,I set it in a registry ,
I was using
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\...
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Why are some paths followed by a ",0" (a comma and a zero) on Windows?
Sometimes in Windows I come across some paths, between some quotes or not, that are followed by a ,0 (basically a comma and a number). It's not necessary 0 it could be 1, 3, 5 or any other number but ...
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How can I create a command on Win10 to open the "Folder and Search Options" window on the second tab?
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I'm big on customizing my context menus, and I have edited the registry to include a context menu item that appears when you right click the background of a directory. The context menu is ...
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How to prevent the installation of extensions in Chromium browsers (Vivaldi)
I want to prevent the installation of any extension on all my browsers. Chrome was easy enough I found out how to do it using regedit going to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > WOW6432Node > ...
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Custom Windows right-click command doesn't execute batch file as expected
I'm trying to create a custom right-click command which will move a file to a folder. I have a batch file called C:MyMove.bat with the following code:
@echo off
cls
move %1 "C:/My folder/"
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Windows template for changing name of moved file (when same already exists)
I have 2 folders: from folder and to folder.
In each of these, I have a file named TEST.txt.
When I move TEST.txt
from from folder to to folder
— surely, this message appears:
In my case, I want ...
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How can I set the value for each default key in different subdirectories of regedit?
Here is a screenshot what I'm working with:
screenshot of regedit directory
I wanna run a script that will set every default key in each subdirectory named mplayerc64.*\shell to "enqueue" (...
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When log into standard account of PC run VBS that requires admin privs
I need when I log into Windows account of standard user, VBS file should be run automatically.
I know I can create a new string value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ...
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Where can I find this startup entry
I am on Windows 10. After I re-organised my drives and folders, I get this error on startup. I get it the first time I logon after booting up.
E:\Development\Toolbar is unavailable. If the location ...
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Is it safe to change registry names from VBOX to something else in Virtualbox?
I'm trying to make a stealthy Windows 7 VM on an Ubuntu host but in the registry there are many keys and values which have "VBOX" written (see screenshot attached). Therefore, is it safe if ...
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How to properly find java home folder with batch?
I'm trying to find the currently installed version and home folder of java JDK.
I am trying this code, but I cannot figure out the proper "combination" of delims, tokens such that it ignores ...
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Using reg.exe in a script with folder containing spaces
At my company we have a tool basically letting an user to choose on which site to log to, tool that will then deploy the correct registry files containing the settings about the site the user chose.
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Key "ProxyOverride" in Windows registry - is it limited to 256 characters?
In general, is there such a thing that Windows registry keys with string-values should be no more than 256 characters long? In particular, I wonder if the string-value below should be subject to such ...
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How to make persistent changes (survive after reboot) in the Windows registry?
I have a Windows 7 VM and I'm trying to modify the keys in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\SystemInformation since I want to change the data in both SystemProductName and BIOSVersion ...
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Winows 10 taskbar preivew disappear
My goal is really quite simple. I want to make it such that there is no delay between my mouse moving away from the window preview (from the taskbar) and that preview disappearing.
Somehow, in the ...
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