This week, we’ll be rampant with Windows registry revelations, so cry “havoc” and let loose the geeks of tech. . . . So from the last two weeks of discussion we know about the logical and physical ...

Microsoft issued a warning yesterday stating that removing Windows account security identifiers (SIDS) that do not have a "friendly" name from security permissions could cause problems in Windows and ...

This post shows how to fix the Registry Editor cannot rename the specified key; name already exists error. Windows sometimes throws an error message when you try to ...

While in newer versions of Windows, Microsoft offers Windows Media Center as a program, for the XP generation. it produced a separate operating system, Windows XP Media Center Edition. This edition of ...

There I am, futzing around and trying to get Windows XP SP3 RC1 installed.<BR><BR>Hey look, an error. Hmmmm, Google says the error is a registry key.<BR><BR>Wait a ...

I've got a windows service (custom in-house) that needed to be changed from running as Local System to running as Network Service Performing the same change in our test environment was uneventful and ...

Windows Registry or simply registry is a repository that stores low-level configurations and settings associated with the Windows operating system and its various programs. It’s one of those system ...

A hot potato: Just as Microsoft is battling five different security flaws affecting the Windows print spooler, security researchers found the company's next nightmare – a permissions flaw dubbed ...

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 ...

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 ...