Questions tagged [regedit]
regedit.exe is the inbuilt tool which provides direct access to the Windows Registry. Only tag if your question specifically involves using regedit.exe, otherwise use [windows-registry].
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Disable Bing Search on Windows Start Menu for Standard Users [duplicate]
I found that the How-to-Geek Guide - How to Disable Bing in the Windows 10 Start Menu works also for Windows 11 (or at least for versions prior to 22h2).
I have more than one account on my machine, ...
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windows search bar background gets white even when is in dark mode
after disabling web search suggestions in windows search/start menu by regedit per that tutorial:
edit explanation:
windows is in dark mode, and this background is dark in dark mode, but it is not
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How to change the desktop icon font?
I am trying to change the font of the desktop icons. More specifically, I want to change it from Segoe UI to Rockwell Extra Bold.
As far as I know, the only way to do it is in regedit, but the font ...
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Disable Safe Mode for Newer OS
To block standard users to log in , We are applying below reg key for Win11 Computers via GPO. But its not working. standard users Still log in to computer via safe mode.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\...
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Messed with Regedit trying to recover PC! What settings changes affect my PC negatively?
Hello everyone! This is a second post I found in my drafts (luckily) after my newer post got closed for vagueness.
Setup:
I was recently victim to being locked out of my PC thanks to MSconfig's ...
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I changed my user name in the registery and my user account doesn't work properly
I wanted change user profile name and was go to regedit in local-machine, microsoft, windows nt, currentVersion profile list and in ProfileImagePath change the name. But after this my user profile ...
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Some custom URI schemes not working on Edge
I've discovered the concept of Custom Protocol Handlers lately and have been using it to access some desktop (.exe) applications through my browser (which is Edge).
I've registered many of my apps to ...
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Having issues with Windows 10/11 running dualbooted Zorin (Ubuntu Fork)
I'm having issues getting windows to run in AHCI mode. When I switch my bios into AHCI, windows bluescreens, as expected- but RegEdit isn't saving my changes to storahci and iaStorV to allow windows ...
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Issue remapping keys using Scancode Map in Windows 10
I am using Acer laptop, and have attached the hardware information here:
The keyboard layout is as shown below:
I find it annoying to use Fn+Page Up for Home and Fn+Page Dn for End and tried to swap ...
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Windows Defender - How can I temporarily disable calls to MpCmdRun -GetDeviceTicket using registry editor
I have noticed that calls to MgCmdRun.exe GetDeviceTicket -AccessKey <SOME_KEY> were causing glitches in a rendering application I am working on.
I was wondering if there was a way I could ...
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Why isn’t any Windows 10 Pro autologon method working?
I have setup a Windows 10 Pro computer with local GPO and registry edits that is meant to be used only for internet browsing. So, I configured it with two local user accounts besides the main ...
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Add button on windows search result of start menu
Is there a way, maibe from regedit, to add a button in the section pointed by the arrow of the start menu:
Because I saw that some programs do it.
Eg: I want to add a button named Add link to desktop,...
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In Windows 11, what's the registry key that controls whether "details" side panel in Explorer is shown?
I frequently do in-place upgrade to Windows 11 since Windows Update doesn't work on my PC. After each upgrade, the "detail" tile on the right side of explorer will be hidden and I have to ...
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Please help me to get access to c: Drive because I messed up the permissions
I was playing around with permissions and In regedit I blocked C drive access.
then I blocked the permission for C drive.
and now I can't undo anything and change it back even tho I am the ...
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Cannot edit registry Windows 11
I always disable Windows defender on my machines via the registry editor, but this time I have run into a problem: first of all, I happen to have a Home version of Windows 11, so I had to install the ...
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