regedit

If you’ve ever poked around Windows’ innards, you probably stumbled on the Windows Registry — the sprawling hierarchical database that quietly governs countless system behaviors. What many users don’t realize is that the Registry is part museum piece, part power tool: it’s older than most of the...

Tooltips — those little pop-up text boxes that appear when you hover over files, folders, desktop shortcuts, or taskbar icons — are designed to give quick context, but for many Windows 11 users they become intrusive and disruptive; this guide explains every practical method to delay, disable, or...

File Explorer in Windows 11 is powerful, but out of the box it includes modern context-menu cruft, pinned pages, and automatic folder sniffing that can slow and clutter everyday navigation — the eight Registry tweaks below strip away the noise, speed up browsing, and restore classic behaviors...

Hi, I think I've messed my registry up. Just before doing some registry editing using regedit I saved the whole registry reg.reg. Rebooted and couldn't get into windows. Am now booted into Command Prompt but don't know what to do! I've been playing with reg.exe but not been able to get it...

Does anyone know how to do this with regedit? I really just want to do this

Hello !! I'm new to the forum. My PC at work displays an annoying image on the desktop on startup that obscures the icons. I can change it by going into Personalisation and changing the background to "solid". This is something that I have to do every time that I boot my PC up. Is there...

As title says. The folder is placed on my secondary hard drive and it comes from an old PC of mine. The problem is that the folder was owned by my other PC's local account. I fixed that by adding myself as owner and I still can't remove the folder. I've even downloaded a regedit file that adds...

Hi, I hope this is in the right section. I've got a Windows 10 machine running in virtualbox. What I want to to do is make one of the fake users that I have created have a corrupt profile so that when they try logging on, they get an error message saying they are being logging on with a...

I think it may have been called WordWheelQuery in Windows 7. I skipped 8 and 10 so I don't know if it changed. I've managed to disable search history in WIndows 11. But I'd like to also disable the folder path history as well. Is there a way? Anyone know the regedit entries I need to edit?

For some reason without warning my Edge (latest version) picked up a menu label at the bottom on the “settings” panel; "Browser is managed by your organization" and the auto fill-in password scheme stopped. It took me awhile to look for the reason and to solve it, with a boat load of erroneous...

I already made this post on the actual windows support forum, but I haven’t gotten a response in half a month. I was watching YouTube on my laptop and decided to try updating to Windows 10 after failing many other times. Big mistake. I looked up many tutorials on how to update, which led me to...

I'm trying to turn on hardware acceleration for autocad. I changed registry values from 0 to 1 for hardware enabled and hardware available. After opening autocad hw/ac option seems turning on. But after some time it turns off automatically. I opened regedit once again and see that hardware...

I tried to uninstall a USB to HDMI adapter to reinstall it because it was not working correctly. I recieved the message above. I disabled it and tried again to uninstall it. Same result. I removed the program using regedit. Same result. I know the adapter works correctly as I tested it on...

I have an old HP EliteBook that has windows 10. I needed to get rid of a USB to HDMI adapter to reinstall it. When I tried to uninstall the app I received the message "Setup has detected that xxx USB Display is currently running". I disabled the adapter with the same results. I then removed the...

Hello, I have a folder that has video files. For each file I want to add a brief comment describing file contents. Example, video taken when we went to Grand Canyon. Is there a way to modify the infotip? Doing web searches I saw some method using regedit. Is there an easier way to change the...

Hi , I changed in the regedity editor the exe file key , and now i cant open any exe file , even the regedit i cant open or cmd too , I tried anything (also reset to an early saving of the pc i cant) I dont know what to do please help , ill be glad if someone will find the solution. Also i...

My exe file wasn't loading (WarFace launcher) , so I searched in online and found video , I went to regedit , then don't remember where , but I changed .exe ones default "value" to "%1"%* , but then this guy changed "exefile" s 1 file "open"'s default value to "%1"* , there were 2 files in it ...

have been searching for a solution to this for the past few days - I can't preview pdf documents in Outlook as a "previewer isn't installed". I've installed xodo and SumatraPDF ,Omegle Link Removed https://pnrstatus.vip/ but neither of them seem to work with Outlook. Does this mean I have to...

I cant open any exe files such as regedit and taskmanager. this is a screenshot of the current problem i'm having(running as administrator also doesn't work.

Q. Ok so I'm looking to change the DEFAULT ICON for the libraries such as Downloads, Documents, Music, Videos, Favorites in every location that they are displayed including File Explorer. Regedits are fine. Is there a way to indefinitely change the icon for these folders in Windows 10? Thanks...