Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (6262)	2/13/1999 5:17:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>> Backup a little Open the registry editor (regedit.exe in the windows\system or system32 directory). Navigation is similar enough to Explorer that you can figure it out, though it has it's quirks. You are now looking at the windows system registry. In the left pane you see a bunch root directories (looks like), known as "registry hives", as in bees or little red welts. Equally uncomfortable either way. It's confusing, but the most important hives are HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE where things for the pc are defined and HKEY_CURRENT_USER where things about the currently logged on user are defined. The things in the left pane are keys; those in the right values. Most values are named, though a key can have one unnamed value, which will appear in the right pane as (Default). Values can have various data types, but principally string or binary. Strings are usually the trouble makers, or at least the ones you can spot, because you can read the strings but you need a source to interpret the binarys. In the run directory, you will find strings specifying things that windows will run when it starts up (as if they were in the Start directory I told you how to navigate to earlier). You can prevent their running by deleting the values. Here endeth the first lesson.