Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

The Windows Registry organizes all Windows system and user settings into a hierarchical structure of keys and values, replacing the older INI files. Each key contains specific types of data, and ...

“Centralized configuration database” is Microsoft’s long and rather more formal way of saying “registry” – that somewhat eccentric hierarchical database that now has a pivotal role in Windows ...

Microsoft’s latest and greatest operating systems – Windows XP Professional and Windows .NET Server (currently in release candidate status) – offer a breadth of new command line utilities that will ...

The Windows registry remains a place of mystery and wonder. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Here's a lesson I learned very early ...

You can change Registry key values manually using the built-in Windows Registry Editor (regedit) in order to improve performance or make Windows work the way you want, but you need to know what you’re ...

Microsoft has partially fixed a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 devices. This LPE vulnerability (not yet officially tracked using a CVE ID) ...