The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It contains settings for low-level operating system components as well as the applications running on the platform.
Questions tagged [windows-registry]
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What is the registry setting required to set Internet Explorer as the default browser?
I guess the title of the question speaks for itself, but ideally we'd like to set registry keys rather than run some kind of tool. That way we can make a script for it.
Does anyone know the registry settings that need to change to set IE as the…
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Change variables set in Windows Volatile Environment
I inherited a laptop with Windows XP installed. I think the user account I'm using originally had a different username. Some of the enviroment variables (APPDATA and HOMEPATH) are still referencing the former username, rather than my new username.…
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How can I change owner of a Registry Key to which I don't have access?
I ran into a bizarre issue when I upgraded some machines to Windows 10 where incorrect permissions on RuntimeBroker caused problems. I found a solution online that recommended changing permissions (first in the registry, then in DCOM configuration),…
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Auditing Registry events through AD
I want to audit registry related events (modify key delete key etc) , so i enabled it via group policy and setup a "Global Object Access Auditing" for auditing on "Authenticated Users". Unfortunately the event count it too high and almost 95% of…
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Registry read permissions (scripting) on Windows Server 2003
Executing the following VBScript on our Windows Server 2003
Set p_shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
p_shell.RegRead("HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\")
yields the following error
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop>cscript test.vbs
Microsoft…
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Prevent Windows Update/Upgrade to reset registry value(s)
Situation:
Windows 10 with specific application installed
Application has modified some registry keys at installation in "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print...
After installing the Windows 10 update/upgrade (Version 1511…
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Python: How can i read the environment variables / user path variables from another user?
As far as i know, the user variables (of the currently logged on user) are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment. User path variables are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders and the system…
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Load, Compare & Diff Registry of Windows Servers & Clients on VHDs?
We are deploying various Windows Servers {2008, 2012} & Clients {7,8.x, 10} and various custom applications, versions & special utilities.
Without bothering the audience here on specifics of each, we'd like to figure out what tools/ ways could we…
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Why in Windows 2008R2 hkey_users sub keys does not match user profiles count?
I'm trying to set default proxy setting for all users (including remote desktop users) via the registry ( under HKEY_USERS\\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\)
On a classical server or workstation each user have a…
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After making my VM highly available I get "Could not find Ethernet switch" error when trying to live migrate
I normally create new VMs from the Failover Cluster Manager GUI. But this time around I went a different route because I had to (due to time constraints and available resources at the time). For this one VM I had to create it on cluster node1…
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Disable Visual Effects for Windows 8.1 Virtual Desktop
I am trying to build a new virtual desktop Pool in VMWare Horizon View 5 with Windows 8.1 clients. At the Moment, i am optimizing the image for best performance, including using an optimization script from Microsoft Technet. In this script there is…
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Disable Start menu new Items highlighting by GPO in Windows 2012 R2
I need to disable the new items highlighting (New items are marked with "New") on Windows 2012 R2 (remote desktops).
I tried setting the registry value HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Start_NotifyNewApps used on…
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What is causing WMI to delete registry keys
on one of our servers registry keys keep disappearing.
These keys contain certificate keys for our sophos av management console
and parts of the enterprise console stop working after each reboot (the message router
to be specific). After enabling…
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Mysterious case of automatic logon without the registry settings that ought to trigger it
This question has an overlap with programming, but I think it primarily belongs here. I'm building an elaborate script in AutoIt that switches on autologon so that multiple unattended reboots are possible. I also check if autologon was already…
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Disabling weak ciphers
Does anyone have any experience disabling weak ciphers on Windows Registry? Server doesn't have IIS installed. Below is the results of my security scan but not 100% what registry entries should be added, i've disabled whole protocols via the…
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