Windows 10 Advanced Windows Secrets
Advanced Windows
secrets Tweak your PC with the help of Windows 10’s Registry Editor
he Registry has been a vital component of Windows for the last 20 years. It’s a central database, where settings and preferences are stored, and not just by Windows, either. The majority of applications installed on your PC store their own data in the Registry, too, as do many hardware devices. In this feature, we’ll look at how the Registry is constructed, plus reveal how you can access its data – not just to view its contents, but also to tweak settings. Why do this? It all boils down to preference, and the fact that Windows is built with a wide range of hardware in mind, so many settings are configured to just work, rather than push your PC’s performance, or give you control over how it works. The Registry is also a useful beast for those unhappy with how Windows 10 looks and operates – that’s because
lurking behind some of the less appealing parts of the new user interface are settings you can tweak that restore classic functionality. We’ll examine some of these tweaks in this feature. We’ll also reveal a number of tweaks that may help you boost your gaming performance. Plus we show how you can use the Registry to tweak various security and privacy settings that are normally reserved for Windows 10 Professional users. All of this can sound frightfully (or delightfully) meddlesome, so it’s a good idea to back up your Registry before you start to mess around. We’ll reveal what you need to do (plus how to restore your backup if things go wrong). Finally, jumping around different parts of the Registry can be time-consuming, so we’ll reveal how you can quickly build scripts using Notepad to change multiple parts of the Registry with relative ease.
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