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 ...

Have you ever pondered over the question of how to modify the Registry settings of other Users in Windows 11/10? Well, Windows users can edit and make changes to the registry settings for only the ...

There's been some talk recently regarding fixing Windows problems by using Linux, when Windows utilities fail to work properly. Today I ran into yet another one. This time, with a corrupt Windows 7 ...

“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 ...

In this article, we will show you how to disable the Windows Hello PIN prompt on Windows 10. Windows Hello is an alternative password option that is available only in ...

What is the Windows Registry? Think of it as the “brains” of your Windows installation. Specifically, it’s a giant warehouse, a single, easy-to-access, hierarchical database that stores each of your ...

Microsoft is getting over its Jack Nicholson phase, whereby the company previously felt, "You can't handle the truth!," to echo the famous line from A Few Good Men. The truth, in this case, is how ...

When designing Java desktop applications for consumer use, you may need to access users' Registries to read information about particular hardware configurations. In order to do this, you can use the ...