What Are Those Different HKEY Registry Things in Windows Anyway?

[@ThioJoe]

Corrections: • At 1:55 I mixed up the 'HKU' and 'HKCC' abbreviations

[@markm0000]

It’s ok bro the video is good

[@GdShard5]

*1:54

[@DavidGoben]

That's OK. You were talking so fast even I missed it. As an instructor, I have had to learn to talk slowly. The great thing about a live audience is you can spot the deer-in-headlights look on peoples faces. 😱

[@typerightseesight]

its just windows trying to self asphyxiate yourself for point of sales touchscreen stuff!

[@_lun4r_]

@@GdShard5 now get him to edit the comment so it's unpinned

[@geoffreyjones3832]

I'll take your word and leave the Registry alone. Makes sense, right?

[@ThioJoe]

Yep, no need to rummage around in it unless necessary

[@EmQue33]

A tip id recommend to always export the one before modifying anythint incase you felt the app/ device is not functioning properly

[@WohaoG]

@@ThioJoe but what if there is a need to rummage around in it

[@Lofote]

​@@ThioJoe It is not that harmful, just like Linux config files.

[@near5148]

​@@Lofote bet

[@JapChinLuvr]

My friends and business associates consider me somewhat of a "computer guru", but ThioJoe almost never stops amazing me at his depth of knowledge. I learn a LOT here!

[@parthibpramanick2436]

changing registry value windows 11 is safe ??

[@parthibpramanick2436]

changing registry value windows 11 is safe ?

[@tamertamertamer4874]

I don’t have to touch the registry often but I’m very happy that I have the option to. Also don’t forget to backup your registry before messing with it !

[@whophd]

I’ve never actually backed it up, but “my other car is a Mac”, so to speak. I suppose I didn’t care if I crashed the company car.

[@Ozymandias1]

Make a System Restore Point to be sure. It’s the easiest way to revert to the previous state of Windows.

[@NinjaRunningWild]

Or at least back up the key path you’re altering.

[@guy.rouillard]

H in HKEY means "Hive Key"... and those root registry folders are simply the loaded forms of the hives, the files found on several paths in a Windows installation.

[@TheCynysterMind]

This is a good explanation... It might be worth its own video... but backing up your registry and making a list of favorites inside the registry (and exporting your favorites) could be useful to other power users.

[@_SJ]

6:28 I actually prefer longer videos but simplified ones are also cool.

[@Daniel-fi7jp]

I've played a lot in the registry and gotten pretty comfortable with it after bricking a few test windows installs. It's such a good but risky tool

[@volvo09]

Yeah, some parts accept NO errors. I remember bonking a windows install by creating a 64bit entry instead of 32bit.

[@CosmicHaven1]

Interesting video and really good and simple explanation! Have been a fan for a really long time. Keep up the good work man! Also I've always been scared and cautious to enter the registery cuz i thought i was gonna mess my main pc up lol

[@I.____.....__...__]

- 0:40 There actually is a driver/program called RegFS that lets you mount the registry hives as a filesystem so that you can browse and edit them in File Explorer just like actual files. Sadly, it was pretty unstable and didn't support the newer changes to the registry format and was eventually discontinued. 😕 - 3:21 You can use ERUNT to defrag and shrink the registry (like using the _vacuum_ command on SQLite databases). - You didn't mention how the mappings work, that is, how system and user settings override or take precedence when there's a collision.

[@VitaminXism]

Good length and detail. Subscribed

[@parthibpramanick5056]

changing registry value windows 11 is safe ?

[@JustPyroYT]

Interesting Video! But I never opened the registry editor because I'm too afraid that I could ruin my entire windoes Installation 😂

[@WohaoG]

you won't

[@Lofote]

You definitely wont. Thats like not opeing Windows Explorer, because there you can do much mroe harm.

[@JustPyroYT]

I know that. But I'm still afraid xD

[@parthibpramanick5056]

changing registry value windows 11 is safe ?

[@trferret]

Love the content keep it up!

[@HailAnts]

The Registry was introduced with Windows 95. Before that Windows 3.1 (and 3.0) simply used a couple of .ini files: win.ini system.ini desktop.ini user.ini etc. And they were just simple text files you could open with Windows Notepad. They contained some code-like text but were mostly readable by anyone. Every individual program also made use of its own .ini files as well. It was simple, but far too limited. A more database-like system like the Registry was inevitable.

[@nordbymikael]

0:15 I could be wrong here, but according to my experience in database development i think you probably misunderstood something. There are no variables in document databases, but only keys and values. The things on the left are actually just a type of "distribution keys" which are used to organize the data (quite similar to objects in JSON), and the things inside them are the actual keys and their values. For example the "Desktop distribution key" in the "current user root distribution key" could contain a "key" named "AnyRandomBackground" and a string value in side which is a file path (the names could be wrong, but I wrote them just for the understanding). This is a common structure in document databases (for example JSON), and I could recommend you to learn a bit about it, just for the basic understanding. It is very interesting.

[@shackamaxon512]

The registry is a hierarchical db. JSON is a pretty good analogy

[@WebBannana]

I looked up the documentation and I think ThioJoe is right in this case. According to Microsoft's terminology the "keys" on the right side are just called "value names". Search "Structure of the Registry" in Microsoft's docs.

[@andrewsquest628]

Very cut-and-dry, straigth to the point overview. A big thanks!

[@snarkykat]

I find your videos either informative or eye-opening, no matter what length they are. But today's video is the perfect length, because of my shortened attention span on this particular day. Must... increase... caffeine... consumption

[@MaximumRD]

Funny that years ago I would never have thought to touch anything in the registry, I was paranoid to do anything in it for fear of breaking something. Slowly I got more familiar without and learned about it and now I delete, edit and add entries to registry all the time, it really comes in handy to learn about the registry.

[@MrMarbles]

Miss the old days when Thio Joe was teaching us how to grt free internet or double our battery size.

[@DUMBDUDEGAMER]

6:04 That RTX 4090 & RTX 3090 combo in the same PC is wild.

[@ThatProgrammer]

My thought process exactly.

[@Ozymandias1]

Joe has money to burn on sick hardware. 😄

[@singemfrc]

I was hoping someone else noticed that, dang!

[@board_runner]

Amazing !! - So clear and direct, in only 6 minutes !! -For the first time in my life, I feel 'safe and curious' in _the registry_. It used to be like >>"F3" and ONLY touch what i'm there for

[@board_runner]

My eyes are done now-{explaining why some of the words in the above, might be in a funny order}

[@parthibpramanick5056]

changing registry value windows 11 is safe ?

[@board_runner]

@@parthibpramanick5056 ONLY if you know what you are doing. I have some experience with it now, and have been changing alot of what I hate about windows. Linux is still my first choice, but the regestry is key ☺

[@MSched]

Yeah, joe. This is good for people who has never seen the registry.

[@Tundoul]

Very interesting video!

[@anon_y_mousse]

As a Linux user who hasn't used Windows since the days of Win98, I'd be interested in knowing more about how it works from a programmatic standpoint as well as how bits of the registry are protected from ordinary users modifying them. Could a user just select the root of the tree and hit delete?

[@Kippykip]

Yeah it has individual NT permissions on every key, so you can't do that

[@Lofote]

Doesn't work. Even if you had the permission. It is actually easier to delete all Linux boot config files than a whole HKEY :)

[@markarca6360]

It looks like navigating to your root directory cd /, then rm -rf

[@Chaos_Creations]

Thanks for making these videos! Ngl i listen to these as a background sound and they are really relaxing! I also learn loads from these ahaha

[@sofiaknyazeva]

Nice video! I remember when Wise Registry Cleaner literally purged my whole registry hive and so I had to reinstall Windows 😓

[@Robert_Smith]

Hey thiojoe love seeing your videos in my recomendations

[@atpray]

I really like the corrections tab of new youtube

[@joewieher6939]

Im studying the registry right now! perfect timing on the video drop lol

[@abdumudi2]

Joe always remind me that I don't know shit about computer :)

[@ThioJoe]

Spoiler: Most topics I make a video about, I don’t know much about until I research it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@radartabby]

Thank You for this vid!

[@xSqr_]

You the only who I understands from thank you.

[@johngoard8272]

So Joe mate from this video can I assume that the registry keys are not in one particular place in the OS system and placed apart from within the system? This tutorial is not what I expected and thought that registry had it's own spot in the OS. I think a much simpler assessment of each HKEY for those of us who are not that tech savvy

[@ReformationRamblings]

Don’t touch it unless it’s an absolute necessity. And yes… dark mode is a necessity.

[@gosnooky]

Back in the 98-XP days, we called them "hives", I still think it's a cooler name than "root keys".

[@jwillisbarrie]

Thanks for adding actual captions for the Deaf.

[@5H4D0WOfficial]

Very Interesting 🤔

[@JCCyC]

HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA is like /proc in Linux.

[@mystorey]

I'm Lovin this

[@lmdsn]

That’s great to hear

[@NinjaRunningWild]

Registry is key to killing off a lot of unnecessary startup processes. But, best to leave it alone unless you know what you’re doing.

[@camerongamer]

My registry is corrupted on my old PC that did not really "function". (edit: video idea find the registry editor's files in the registry)

[@Pikminiman]

I like in-depth videos, and I like concise videos. I just don't like my time being wasted by content creators who try to split the difference.

[@danman32]

hkey_users won't necessarily show registry data for all users. It depends when the users were last logged in, when the machine was rebooted/reloaded, etc. All these years (decades) I didn't realize there was HKCC. I've always been going to HKLM\system\currentControlSet Then again, HKCC doesn't contain all of CurrentControlSet, and you still have to go to ..\System\CurrentControlSet from HKCC so maybe I'll just stick with what I've been going to.

[@charlessmith263]

Now, due to the recent explosions of cyberattacks, how will you know if your HKEY in the registries are good, or potentially harmful, or dangerous? Malwarebytes usually will detect the dangerous HKEY programs if your computer is infected with these bad registries, but can they find all of the bad stuff?

[@andreracicot4881]

If you not have this key your PC or Windows not found corrected like système 64 for example.

[@infected7258]

Man I have a grudge against you, years ago when I was a kid I fell for one of your videos on how to turn your PS3 into a PS4😂😂

[@MonochromeWench]

HKEY is really just a weird implementation detail with how registry access works in the Win32 API. Win32 's use of hungarian notation for identifiers means everything needs to have its type in the name so the constants to access the root keys all start with HKEY because they are used as handles to the root keys.

[@emadalzahid3394]

We need an episode on the topic of artificial intelligence and its impact on computer programs and programming. I wish you success, with greetings from Iraq

[@banalMinuta]

Yo could you do a video on how to change the transparency of the task bar with a registry edit. I specifically want to make the taskbar completely transparent.

[@phillyflash43]

Please do a video about TRON, thanks!

[@DjSigfrid]

Wow interesting video

[@whophd]

“If you enjoyed this video”, yes but I literally wish Microsoft had told me this stuff in 1993 not 2023, when they first dumped it on me with Windows NT 3.1. Why has even the basic stuff been such “security by obscurity” from the beginning, or was it more just like laziness?

[@whophd]

The Windows Registry feels like the biggest most successful technology that’s ever been made without a minimal bit of documentation

[@WindowsVMofficial]

I touched my windows 11 regedit too much and now it looks and thinks that it is windows 10, and i get windows 11 updates,I guess its a win-win

[@gracemember101]

In my opinion Windows relies way too much on these registry keys for apps other than the OS. I have had to recover dozens of registry files when the user has impatiently held down the on/off button for five seconds and then find out the next morning that their registry is corrupted.

[@shaggy7927]

unless you know what you're doing, don't mess with these registry keys

[@markclark787]

Good info

[@mategamer20]

hey @ThioJoe have u used tiny 11 i have it as my system for 1 week to try

[@RandomytchannelGD]

NICE!

[@neilw2O]

Are there date stamps of registry changes/additions? Would be rather useful.

[@rockpie.iso.tar.bz2]

Revive the "Dumb Comments" series and i won't unsubscribe tomorrow.

[@Mrmcnuggrt]

Yo ThioJoe

[@sharkieislive]

Cant tell you how many times i have deleted that NTUSER file thinking its a trash or temp file 💀 Thanks now I won't delete it

[@sevada7975]

I think this is not bad video, but curently maybe I need more practically explained video

[@OakBlox]

what about hkey_dyn_data, included in older dos versions of windows

[@geoffreyjones3832]

You did spark a question about users. I bought office online. I am concerned that the controlling email owner may have access to what I do that I don't want them to. Can I read any of these to find out?

[@Mike.Kachar]

Hey Joe... First off, I don't want you to take this the wrong way or that I mean any disrespect. I like watching a lot of your vids, & appreciate what you do. That said, I just wanted to let you know that, to my ears, you say the word "config" a little oddly. When I say it, I pronounce it like cunfig (smoothly, with no break between cun & fig), but when I hear you say it, I hear a break in between, like con-fig. Again, no disrespect or makin fun - I just wanted to point this out to you. Am I the odd one here, or do others hear it? Thanks for the vid - please keep it up!

[@Mike.Kachar]

Also, great job pointing out the "virtual" registry keys. I actually had no idea that even existed. Kudos on adding in that little tidbit!

[@ee0275]

Nice

[@fh5sr]

just a question while searching for a app on my computer i found a hh command what does it do?

[@lakeishahopkins5616]

Hey I have an issue where I changed my path environment variables and now when I go to open my VM’s it give me an error file not found at the path location. How can I change my vm path to point to where my ISO are stored on my vm machine?

[@TheodoreChin-ih7xz]

Facts

[@Mr.Programs1256]

can you make a video what if we delete Registry key ?

[@GamePro9Elite]

Caan you do a video on deleting every file on a computer

[@anianii]

1:58 Are you sure about those two last ones?

[@ThioJoe]

oops

[@ThePowerRanger]

5:52 how did you change the Task Manager like that?

[@Foomba]

I have Win 10 Home Edition and I have several tabs at the top, one of them being the performance tab. ThioJoe's setup is different, guessing he has the Win 10 or Win 11 Pro version. He has a list of icons running down the left side, and he has selected the performance icon (indicated by the blue mark by it).

[@Lofote]

Its the newest Win11 task manager.

[@madhavjathar4388]

How do u add the encryption feature on windows 10 & 11

[@AmandeepBedi]

Does anyone know how to fix/restore a missing Regedit key, specifically the one at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Khronos\OpenCL\Vendors ? I need it to enable OpenCL on Premiere Pro.

[@pinkshortcomedy]

Bold of you to think I touched something as dangerous as the registry on my potato pc that freezes a bit too much.

[@TheTheThewillow]

How does tls 1.2 work without a subkey in schannel

[@lelanceflamer]

You actually have an RTX 4090, wow.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

But where are the "keys" and where are the doors for those keys🤔

[@AshleyPrice-dj1co]

I accidentally Deleted hot key local machine software can I fix

[@tristankordek]

👍

[@MouseQueen7220]

3:40 what was that sound???

[@Joshua-ew6ks]

I had to use the registry to fix an issue with my windows profile. For some reason windows logged me a temp profile, but I still access to my user date, but my settings were reset: My desktop, my app settings. (and would reset each reboot). I had to delete a registry setting, change a name of one to .bak, and the change the user profile from temp back to my user profile. (because it auto correct to temp when I deleted the .bak key.) (Bing AI explain it to me.)

[@Joshua-ew6ks]

Also, I want to thank God, because He made it work for me. And lead me to the answer.

[@volvo09]

That used to happen quite frequently when I did desktop support. Some weeks we'd have a few temp profile issues, and other times we could go months without seeing any. At least they were easy fixes. If someone was patient I could walk them through it at home.

[@shackamaxon512]

The registry has become a dumping ground for installed software. When software is uninstalled it may leave behind junk that over time clutteres up the registry with orphaned keys. But unless I can proove that a key is never referenced by any software on my machine I won't delete that key. I don't trust Norton when it tells me I have 2k registry orphans. How would you prove that a registry key is never referenced by any software? I know there are utilities that monitor the install process and record any changes to the registry so that the changes can be undone. But I cant remember the names of any of these utilities

[@Lofote]

They are no hit in the performance, so just leave them alone :)...

[@concept-seven]

Thought the H stood for Hive....

[@seinodernichtsein8710]

Sandboxie pls

[@PipskillerMitufxxauusd]

Plz help solve🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Sir recently reset windows 11 but now windows security option when i try to open windows defender showing You will need to app open this windowsdefender

[@ferdinandw.8952]

Man you really needed to make this real right?

[@ThioJoe]

🤔

[@ferdinandw.8952]

@@ThioJoe explained : me and my friends a day before the upload we were jokin about you making a new video about registry and you actually did it

[@barsadal1738]

but if the files in the system32 folder are just references, where are the actual values stored as raw data?

[@vannhantran547]

As a nerdy, i leave all them alone

[@RealTagComputing]

Yooo!

[@YouGotPropofol]

Windows is Indian software. You can tell.

[@jorgeedson3183]

Queria baixa o fifa 2005 pra pc em português?

[@MonoxideXZ]

NEVER TOUCH REGEDIT IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING IT CAN PERMANENTLY RUIN YOUR SYSTEM

[@godslap6503]

WHU CEARS????

[@dixon310]

So confusing. Haha when u learn more u just feel less you know

[@vIP.bLACK444]

Yo

[@deltasource56]

delete them all just to be safe

[@mr.libluckiestinfinitebene2589]

Weird, it looks like linux