Windows Registry. When introduced with Windows 3.1, the Windows Registry primarily stored configuration information for COM-based components. Windows...

the Windows Registry. Registry cleaners seem to no longer be supported by Microsoft, despite originally having made and distributed their own registry cleaner...

Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It...

the latter. This tendency is reflected in Windows Policy settings named AutoPlay that change Windows Registry entries named AutoRun, and in the autorun...

Windows 3.1 is a major release of Microsoft Windows. It was released to manufacturing on April 6, 1992, as a successor to Windows 3.0. Like its predecessors...

16-bit Microsoft Windows platforms up through Windows 3.1x. Starting with Windows 95 Microsoft favored the use of the Windows Registry and began to steer...

Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor to...

The booting process of Microsoft Windows varies between different releases. In Windows versions 1.01 to Windows 2.11, the system was loaded when WIN.COM...

The Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) is the bootloader provided by Microsoft for Windows NT versions starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008...

Internet registry Regional Internet registry, a database of allocated Internet number resources in a particular region of the world Windows Registry, a database...

will never appear in the Windows task list WIN.COM – Responsible for loading the GUI and the Windows portion of the system Registry and other configuration...

Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a line of discontinued Microsoft Windows operating systems released from 1995 to 2000 and supported until 2006...

Windows Me (Millennium Edition) is an operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems...

introduction of Microsoft Store (then named Windows Store), Microsoft encouraged third parties to use Windows Installer as the basis for installation frameworks...

is an uninstaller for Microsoft Windows. It uninstalls programs and additionally removes any files and Windows registry entries left behind by the program's...

Windows NT 3.1 is the first major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, released on July 27, 1993. It marked the company's...

via modification of the Windows Registry) in Windows 10 until it was finally removed in Windows 10 build 14942. The Windows Briefcase synchronizes files...

bad.proxy is a form of malware known as a "registry hack", an unauthorized alteration to the Windows Registry file that specifically redirects LAN settings...

Windows Preinstallation Environment (also known as Windows PE and WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows used for the deployment of PCs, workstations...

settings in Windows. In most cases, Tweak UI exposed settings that were otherwise only accessible by directly modifying Windows Registry. The following...

script can be saved as a .reg file to fix the issue in Windows XP and later versions: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Photo...

Microsoft Windows that allows the user to revert their computer's state (including system files, installed applications, Windows Registry, and system...

features beyond the kernel like the Windows registry, shutdown/restart the system (or abort), start/stop/create a Windows service, manage user accounts. These...

by Windows 3.x. Many of these settings were honored in Windows 9x, although the files had begun to be phased out in favor of the Windows registry. Windows...

Microsoft for customizing the Microsoft Windows operating system's user interface. Tweak UI modifies the Windows Registry in the same way as a user could edit...

than 10 variants which can infect Windows 95 through Windows 10 (although on modern Windows systems, after Windows XP, its functionality is limited)....

is a utility used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. It is one of the longest-established system...

windows.h is a source code header file that Microsoft provides for the development of programs that access the Windows API (WinAPI) via C language syntax...

exist in Windows, but after 1993, Microsoft began to steer developers away from using INI files and toward storing settings in the registry, a hierarchical...

Windows Movie Maker (known as Windows Live Movie Maker for the 2009 and 2011 releases) is a discontinued video editing software program by Microsoft....