Nice to Know Windows Registry

April 6, 2008 · Filed Under Training & Tutorial · Comment 

What is Windows Registry ?

The Registry is a main database of Windows that contains information continually references during operation, such as profiles for each user, the applications installed on all  computer information (such as which hardware installed, what ports are using)

The Registry of Windows 3.x and MS-DOS configuration files is .ini files such as “autoexec.bat” config.sys”

How to change/edit Registry?

Regedit.exe is a editor program from microsoft, you can run by Click “Start” and select “Run” and type “regedit.exe”

What you can do Registry?

  • Locate a subtree, key, subkey, or value
  • Add a subkey or a value
  • Change a value
  • Delete a subkey or a value
  • Rename a subkey or a value 

Related Topics

Reduce virus/spyware by disable automatic running cd

Microsoft Windows don’t have option to enable/disable automatically running CD/DVD, but you can set enable/disable by edit Windows Registry 

How to enable/disable autorun CD/DVD?

  1. Click Start, click Run  and type “regedit” in the Open box, and then press ENTER
  2. Regedit Edit

  3. Locate and click the following registry key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom
  4. To disable automatically running CD-ROMs, change the Autorun value to 0 (zero).
  5. Disable CD/DVD

  6. To enable automatically running CD-ROMs, change the Autorun value to 1.
  7. Restart your computer.

* Noted: we recommened you to backup “Registry” before edit and change anything


Your Computer IP Address is
38.103.63.61
CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
Page loaded in 0.45 seconds.
Statistics from 29 April 2008

Yahoo bot last visit powered by MyPagerank.Net Msn bot last visit powered by MyPagerank.Net Powered by  MyPagerank.Net Add to Technorati Favorites Powered by WordPress - WordPress Blogs Directory Directory of Computers/Tech Blogs blog search directory
Computer Tips Techniques, Trouble Shooting, Freeware Software Review and Download, Free Anti-Virus and Spyware, Training and Tutorial, Technology Updated