What is the registry?

Windows registry consists of 5 “KEYS”, which are used to store the configuration data that is used by Windows. These 5 “KEYS” are mentioned below:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE: This key consist information of all the hardware and software that are installed on your machine or computer.
• HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG: This key grabs the data form HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and is the key that deals with the entire active hardware configuration.
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT: This key stores information about different file types and OLE applications.
• HKEY_USERS: Information regarding the users that are created and their profiles in Windows are stored in this key.
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER: It is used to store data of the current user, and the current user information is provided by HKEY_USERS key.

Mentioned below are few tips and tricks that you can do on Windows registry in order to make your PC perform faster.

Move My Computer to the Top

You might be fed up of finding the My Computer icon on the desktop. Well, don’t worry; you can fix the position of your My Computer icon on the top left corner of your desktop no matter how you align your icons.

However, you can perform it yourself, all you have to do is to navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}

Find the entry “SortOrderIndex” in the right panel and right click on it and modify it. During modification you need to change to the decimal 54, so the entry looks like this SortOrderIndex REG_DWORD 0×00000054 (84) and its done! As simple as that!

QoS Bandwidth Reserve Setting

Did you know that Windows XP reserves your connection bandwidth up to 20% for QoS traffic? If you perform the following steps mentioned below, you can easily alter the percentage of the bandwidth that is used.

Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Psched in the left hand panel, right click on the right hand panel of the Regedit, choose NEW and then change the DWORD value to “NonBestEffortLimit” and press enter, you would see the new value appearing in the Regedit’s right panel.

Now, you have to right click on this new value and modify it. You can set the percentage value to whatever you want to, as its default value is 20. Press OK and it’s done.

Change Registered Owner in Windows XP

This trick won’t help you to register illegal XP software but can surely help you to change the registered owner in windows XP.

All you have to do is to move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion and right click on the right hand panel on an empty region or white region of Regedit, choose NEW and click on the STRING Value. Enter the new STRING Value as “RegisteredOrganization” and press Enter. Now, you would be able to see the new value on the Right hand panel of the Regedit’s screen.

Again right click on the new value and modify it and set the value data field to reflect the present information and click OK.

Repeat this whole procedure again (Right click on the right hand panel on an empty region or white region of Regedit, choose NEW and click on the STRING Value. Enter the new STRING Value as “RegisteredOrganization” and press Enter. Now, you would be able to see the new value on the Right hand panel of the Regedit’s screen. Right click on the new value and modify it and set the value data field to reflect the present information and click OK.) And it would be done.