Sunday, November 9, 2008

Windows registry

Understanding the registry of any of the OS created by Microsoft can give you enormous manipulative power. The registry is basically a structure that saves any change that you make at any time while you are working on you PC. If you install a registry monitoring program you can see that the registry is active at all times. Every small action such as opening a new window is being controlled by the registry. If you are running a Windows XP OS you can access the registry by using the command "regedit" in the run menu which can be found in the start menu. You cand find out more about the Windows registry on wikipedia.
This is how registry editor looks like under Windows XP:
Now this might look a bit complicated to those that encounter Registry Editor for the first time but it's nothing to be afraid of.

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