windows registry

Microsoft has added native Windows Registry Inventory to Microsoft Intune with the July 2026 Service Release 2607, giving IT administrators a built-in way to collect selected registry data from managed PCs without writing and maintaining custom PowerShell discovery scripts. For Windows estates...

If you are about to change a Windows Registry value or key, first export the smallest parent key that contains the change to a .reg file. If the change causes a problem, import that file to put its saved values back. This guide applies to supported Windows 10 and Windows 11 installations and...

Korben’s new GDID walkthrough argues that Windows users cannot delete the account-linked identifier Microsoft can correlate across VPN sessions, after the April 2026 arrest of an alleged Scattered Spider member put the obscure 64-bit PUID at the center of a public privacy and forensics fight...

The Windows Registry is Windows' structured configuration database. It stores settings that Windows, drivers, services, user profiles, and applications read to decide how the system should behave. Registry Editor, better known as Regedit, is the built-in tool for viewing and editing that...

A WindowsForum explainer video showing how the Windows Registry works, how Regedit edits hives, keys, and values, and why backup-first troubleshooting matters on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Google Chrome users on Windows can block the browser’s automatic download of a roughly 4GB local AI model by setting the GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings enterprise policy to Disallowed, a registry-based control documented for Chromium-derived browsers and surfaced this week after reports of...

The biggest danger with “safe-looking” Windows Registry tweaks is not that they always fail immediately, but that they change foundational behavior in ways that only become obvious after something goes wrong. A handful of popular edits promise cleaner menus, faster shutdowns, or reclaimed disk...

Windows keeps a surprisingly durable "memory" of every USB device that has ever been plugged in — not just a fleeting cache, but persistent registry entries that can reveal vendor and product IDs, serials, install timestamps and other identifying metadata long after the device is gone...