Let’s start with a little quiz. I say, “Big, bloated, and full of errors.” What do you say? Right, “Windows Registry.” One more: “Messing with it is risky.” If you guessed the registry again, you pass ...

Ever since Windows 95, the Windows operating system has been using a centralized hierarchical database to store system settings, hardware configurations, and user preferences. This database is called ...

The Registry Editor is a powerful application that allows you to access and edit the configuration settings of the Windows operating system. The Windows Registry is a database containing various ...

There's nothing more mysterious on a Windows PC than the Registry, and today we'll explain exactly what it is, how it works, and whether you should bother cleaning it. We'll also go about debunking a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

You are probably here because you want a free registry cleaner, a junk file cleaner or a Windows Optimizer for your Windows 11/10 computer. In this post, we will list some of the best free ones.

The Windows Registry is a powerful but confusing component of the Windows operating system. In earlier editions of Windows, editing the Registry was fraught with peril; if the user edited it with the ...

Perhaps it's because Windows is such a robust operating system, or perhaps it's just because Microsoft keeps layering new features over the old, but there's usually more than one way to get things ...

Love it or hate it, Windows 8 is a major departure from Microsoft's past interfaces. While previous versions of Windows kept mostly the same mouse-driven metaphor as their predecessors, even veteran ...