The registry contains extended information, settings and
various other values for the the Microsoft Windows
95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows ME operating system. Within
the registry you can control a great majority of the operating system as well
as fix a lot of issues with Windows. However we only recommend those whom are
experienced with computers or whom feel confident to go into the registry.
Before going into the Registry and changing or deleting
anything we ALWAYS recommend that you backup the registry.
The computer registry consists of two files hidden in the
Windows directory, system.dat and user.dat.
User-specific system information is contained in the user.dat
file and Computer and Hardware specific information in the system.dat
file.
To get into the Windows 95 or Windows 98 registry click
Start / Run / type regedit
When typing regedit you
will get the following screen this window as you can see is the Registry
editor. This windows looks very similar to Explorer
however within each folder you have sub folders which have various settings.
The following are the types of files that you will see
during the time you are in the registry.
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Open or selected folder just as you would see in Windows Explorer
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Closed folder just as you would see in Windows Explorer
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String Value allows you to place certain values to certain aspects of a
program such as a version number.
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Binary Value allows you to set attributes to a particular application,
values are in binary.
- Dword Similar to the binary
value allowing you to set attributes however done in binary and hex.