When old computers used mechanical hard drives as their boot drives, it is conceivable that a large registry could have ...

A hidden Windows registry tweak can unlock serious SSD speed gains—but one wrong move could leave your PC unbootable.

The Windows Registry contains information pertaining to drivers and related settings for hardware components; key OS parameters; information about services, protocols, and application data; and much, ...

The Windows Registry is a powerful but confusing component of the Windows operating system. In earlier editions of Windows, editing the Registry was fraught with peril; if the user edited it with the ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Native NVMe support is an opt-in model, so enterprise users need to enable it via the registry. What some users have found ...

Though a very good registry cleaner, PC Fix Cleaner is pricey for the actual good it will do your system. If you’re charging $30 for a registry cleaner, it had better be pretty darn good. Dubai ...

Mention “the registry” to PC users, and they’ll probably think of standing in line for license plates, not the set of configuration files built into Microsoft Corp.’s operating systems. And Microsoft ...

One of the requirements to run Windows 11 is your PC is must be equipped with a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0 security chip, and it also has to be enabled in the ...

One developer who successfully activated the feature in Windows 11 (version 25H2) is X user PurePlayerPC, who claims it works "pretty good" on his computer. He ...