Hack Your Registry

Hack Your Registry
Just about everything that is important about your Microsoft Windows configuration is stored in the Registry somewhere. It's like a magic level underneath your computer's ordinary reality. Muggles can make only the changes that Microsoft has exposed in this or that configuration window. But Registry wizards can go straight to the source and hack the underlying system. Join them! To see what's in the Registry, just click Start | Run and enter REGEDIT; it's all right there in the Registry Editor. If you're using Windows XP, the editor will launch smoothly. But standard users in Windows Vista will have to get an Administrator to enter a password before the Registry Editor will launch. Once active, you'll see that it's just like navigating in Windows Explorer, with keys and values taking the roles of files and folders.

Look all you want, but before you touch anything, make a backup. First, export the whole Registry, then back up just the key that contains the things you're going to change. Right-click the key, choose Export, and export just that key to a REG file. Give the REG file a name that matches what you're doing. Now if you don't like the results of your hack, you can just launch that file to put things back the way they were. Well, almost?you'll have to manually delete any keys or values that you added to the system.

Do watch out for compatibility, however. A tip that works for Windows 95/98/ME may not be useful in Windows 2000/XP/Vista, or vice versa. And a tip written for a pre-Vista OS may be irrelevant under Vista. That's why you need to be sure you can undo whatever you've done.
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