Before we start, you must know what a Registry Hive is and how this tool works. According to Microsoft’s Windows Dev Center: A hive is a logical group of keys, subkeys, and values in the Registry that ...

If when you attempt to open Microsoft Office programs and receive the error message “The configuration registry database is corrupted“, then this post is intended ...

Windows and most applications save their configuration in the registry database — or registry, for short. Whenever you change a setting, this affects the corresponding value in the registry, but there ...

Today, application settings are more likely to appear in local XML files, but the Windows Registry and its hives of key/value pairs can also be used. The good news is that interacting with the ...

The Windows Registry is a crucial Windows operating system component that stores configuration settings and options. However, if you incorrectly make changes to the Registry, it could cause Windows to ...

Ok, so I've got a Windows 95 machine which tells me "Windows has detected a registry configuration error", and prompts me to boot into safemode at the boot menu. The problem is, it won't boot into ...

As Windows starts it will read the configuration in the registry and know what drivers need to be loaded, what settings to be applied, and what resources need to be allocated in order for this ...

Knowing a printer's registry key is necessary if you're trying to remove a printer from your computer and it won't delete or if you want to make advanced manual configuration changes to a printer.

I'm running a dual boot system with win 98 and 2000, using bootmagic. Win 98 had been unstable, and I was advised to disable acpi and see if that helped. I did that, and reinstalled 98 and 2000, and ...