"speaking of" is the new "goodbye"

great! now I can change the color of blue screen to green screen

Yall need to download more ram

I'm somewhat surprised you didn't touch up on why the registry makes the PC slower over time as you install and install programs, or just daily using some programs that abuse the registry. And no mention of why Microsoft's move to UWP (Universal Windows Platform) for app/applications is important going forward. So, while Linux pointed out that the registry does indeed make it easy for some apps to 'talk' to each other, there are some software that just abuses the registry for more then just leaving settings in there, some will load up the registry with masses of amounts of data that has to be loaded and managed regardless every time your PC starts up. Or when you uninstall a program the uninstaller doesn't know what additional registry settings were added while you were using the program and just leaves them there. Some programs such as Microsoft's own Visual Studio make use of the registry so much, that it increases the registry size by over 50MB just from installation, with the majority of them not being cleaned up after an uninstall. Microsoft's move to UWP allows developers to lock in a registry to their own app instance, so any registry changes are kept with the program, only loaded with the program, and completely removed with the program. This helps keep the system a lot cleaner and faster over time, with less need to use cleaners. The registry is probably the number one thing that 'slows' down a PC over time, and why fresh installs of Windows feel faster.

2:30 We NEED this as a WAN show emote. :)

This was a great introduction! I would love seeing you give even more details on registry editing, maybe you wanna do a "Top 10 most useful registry edits"? I have no doubt it will be amazing because you are so excellent at understanding UX issues and so I'm sure you have in mind every little detail that you would want to fix in Windows. So dig into those Google searches for the best ideas... I found this reg edit that lets you change the icon of of the different drives, so I put a picture of the HDD and SSD and a diagram of RAID0... I thought it was pretty and kind of smart ass thing... Btw I say that you are so excellent at UX because I saw your video of upgrading the iMac... You were so amazing at picking up every single detail about the differences between mac and Windows... You even found a couple of things I never notice but I agreed with everything it was so much fun watching! Love you and thanks!

Other changes people can do in the registry; * Change / reset timers and other expiries stored in registry * Delete / Modify persistent program settings normally inaccessible by conventional means * Make available other features normally handled by GPEdit on home systems For some users tho long to have some older Windows feature, the registry can be a place to enable these features. Also, for more dubious purposes... you're on your own, but you know what to search for. ;)

i kept waiting for ccleaner to come up sometime in the video. i am disappoint.

As fast as possible isn't fast enough for me, so I increase video speed by at least 1.5x.

Good general intro to this subject. I found myself editing this bugger time and again for corporate users. Been so long, I can't even remember the specifics. I loved taken the "sledge hammer" approach and deleting whole sections within particular branches. Amazingly enough, sometimes they'd rebuild themselves. Other times I was merely manually removing residual from uninstalled programs.

This channel has taught me so many things about computers. It is amazing for someone who is keen on becoming a tech geek and study computer science like myself ! Thank you Techquickie !

ccleaner... if it does not fix your problems then will... reinstall your windows

that voice crack at 3:22.

The problem with the registry is that although it allows for customization it is painful to navigate and not particularly user-friendly. Microsoft should make it easier to work with the registry graphically; - for example, customizing the context menus, what comes up when you go to the "New" menu by right-clicking etc.That would be awesome.

LinusTechTips as fast as possible.

fatal error: there's a fatal error.

You're an amazing creator. I learned so much from this short video!

Was expecting a malwarebytes or cc cleaner "adver-tis-mint" at the end...

My 2 favorite reg edits: Force BSOD and custom OEM info!

Using CCleaner to regularly use its registry tool works excellent for me and everyone else I know.

actually one of the most useful "as fast as possible" videos for me! didn't know you could customize so much more about Windows through the registry. thanks.

I've used CCleaner for a decade or so, and it most definitely makes things snappy again for me. With snappy I mean 5% increase or so, and overall a bit more responsive. Whoever thinks it increases by 9000% or some shit is just.. uninformed.. It usually only needs to be done once every few months or so, depending on how much I've done, but it does help. It's mostly a lot of cache cleaning, and registry edits not so much, but they do pop up enough for me personally. I can often trace back the registry points it wants to clean to software I don't have/use anymore. I can definitely recommend.

i knew all that you mentioned except changing the oem logo and title :D that's a really cool one

woman in the bathroom fast as possible

This is one of the most helpful videos you guys have made!!!

Linus, I love all your channels and I learn so much from your videos while still having fun. Never quit KZfaq.

One of good utilities was Tune up utilities from Avg, it was great as cleaner and settings editor for windows, but most times they clean only web browser caches so it really do nothing impossible from browser tools windows do. most interesting was themes to windows xp so most access. avg released Zen so if buyed was great to see some advance settings.

Techquickie - LOVE YOUR VIDEOS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THIS ONE.

Linis media groop Ofishal registry cleaner # 4:22 who saw that ?

Damn, this was incredibly informative. Just set up my context menu and got rid of all the bloat thanks to this video and HowToGeek.

The registry was always the bane of Windows 95 thru XP. You'd boot up and it would still be epically busy doing something five to ten minutes later. Back in the old days you could hear the hard drive going nuts sequentially reading the registry for ages.

In the registry Win 10 1803 and older was such a parameter-HibernateEnabled. Starting with version 1809 it was renamed HibernateEnabled Default. If you use the powercfg command to disable hibernation.exe /hibernate off in cmd. Then The hibernateenabled parameter will be recreated in the system in parallel with the new HibernateEnabled Default. Which causes problems with shutting down, and probably with sleeping due to duplication and most likely conflicting policies and rules.

I'm an old Network Admin. From the beginning... I have hated the Registry-File. It's just an Access database file. And as such... Prone to the the same problems of bloat and optimization problems when grown beyond a certain size!!! Thank God Linux has not taken the same path!!!!

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"Back then, Windows and programs used small ini text files to store settings" Back then my arse. I still come around some of those files in modern programs around my hard drive on my laptop.

When you remove software from your system, they often leave tons of registry files. But deleting them doesn't do much unless your trying to manipulate free trials.

my personal favorite registry edit is to edit the shutdown timeout.

The Windows registry is basically like all the configuration files on a Linux system, nicely placed together in a quite vulnerable way so that updating a program can and eventually will screw up the entire OS.

Finally Linus uploads this, I've been waiting for this FOREVAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many years ago when we ran NT 4.0 on our agency PCs, I was the PC coordinator at the time and I had limited administrative privileges. We had a custom login screen which could be edited via the registry editor. One of our co-workers had a grandchild, and so I hacked the registry on her machine such that the login screen congratulated her on the new family addition; she got a real kick out of it!!

0:28 I legit tried to click the top right of the ad to get it off. :x

I clean my registry with CCleaner like a litter box

2:20 - You can change the font of the command promt by right clicking the window, selecting Properties, selecting Font, and changing the font there :P

Most games still use .ini to store settings, but a great example of a game which used the registry to store it's settings is Firewatch. I wanted to change the game's FoV and had to do it through the registry. Nifty :)

Level 1, 2, 3 cache on CPU ASAP...

I need the pic from 4:05 ! It's awesome!

Gotta say, I install Piraform's CCleaner and Defraggler on every computer I work on, personal, business, and clients. Those two utilities are awesome, and CCleaner will clean your registries as well!

I think this is the best one: In the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\kbdhid\Parameters, create a value named CrashOnCtrlScroll, and set it equal to a REG_DWORD value of 0x01. Now you can get that nice BSOD any time you want, just by holding scroll lock and double tapping ctrl!

Tacky advertisement! Open mouth...insert foot. I'm sure lynda.com was thrilled about that.

Where is the link for the "Ofishal Registry Cleanr?" I needz it.

I recently upgraded from windows 7 to windows 10 and it was a flawless transition. However i did have a few minor issues. My external hard drives, i have connected via USB were sleeping after 5 mins of the drives being idle. This didn't happen in Windows 7 and i found the issue to be annoying. So i spent some time going through all the settings, power scheme settings etc and in the end, i had to edit the registry to resolve the issue and it worked.

Thanks for the info! Now I know why my computer can’t open apps because I have accidentally messed around with some settings in the registery. I’m gonna find a safe registry cleaner to see if that helps 👍

3:34 Over 9000% faster?! Gimme Jimmy!

The registry is a scary and unpredictable thing that I won't ever touch again. I had a virus on one of my old computers and I used an anti-virus program to brute-force remove it from my computer and it ended up deleting a bunch of stuff from my registry. Next time I turned it on, all sorts of stuff broke and weird things started to happen. Every time I would log into steam I would have to wait for the connection to fail and then manually log in. Battle.Net completely broke and I was unable to update it entirely, same goes for razer synapse. Eventually I got so fed up that I tried to reformat my computer and even that wouldn't work. I was unable to update my computer so that I could remove the updates and erase everything. It was a complete mess. So no, the registry is no joke. If you start messing around with files you aren't sure about it can cause some incredibly strange issues.

Yes, I few times fix problem with addware with Ccleaner, even antivirus or antimalware had no effect. In my work i must with instalations go to registry and manualy add zero to some parametres, because GUI set there null instead of zero or there is no option in GUI at all.

Back in the days of windows 95, if you had to uninstall and reinstall a program too many times the redundant registry entries would build up to the point where it substantially affected system performance. Not quite as big of a problem anymore

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FINALLY! THANK YOU!

Using the registry, you can turn the capslock key into a second delete or backspace key. For typing, that's the best regedit you'll ever do.

Hi, I really learn a lot by watching you videos everyday there is just one thing that is bothering me that by following some random video on youtube I customized my registry settings and now my camera dosent work tried everything to fix it but no results so far. It would be great if you could tell me the fix

That segue was a train wreck...never change, Linus!

2:31 WHERE DO I SIGN UP!?

Manually cleaned registry recently (yes, I know what I'm doing, mostly) - windows 10 has never shut down or booted so quickly since the upgrade from 7! Lots of help from a sysinternals program called "autoruns"

my English listening is getting better watching your vids, sure that's beside the great info you offer :D

Windows Registry As Fast As Possible: Legacy garbage

It's actually "the Run dialog box", not "the Run window".

Man, this brings back memories. I haven't touched the registry in over a decade.

Windows 3.1 introduced a rudimentary registry for file associations afaik. It wasn't until Windows 95 when they made it mainstream.

Not even MS understands the Registry in its entirety!

I migrated a single Diablo 2 install across 6 computers just by copying the program files and regkeys. Back in the easy days.

would have liked an endorsement (or otherwise) of ccleaner. It seems to the be registry cleaner that most people use. any chance of a comment on it? (love your work!)

I was terrified of Regedit for some time now it's something I do occasionally. Personally what I do is a bit overkill, but seems to work good keeping things fairly clean. I found a program called revo uninstaller when I had to remove a stubborn print driver. I like it because it runs the program uninstaller if it can and if it can't then it just searches for all the files on the HDD related to it along with the registry entries. If a program don't show and I do it from control panel I do that uninstall then search the program files and program data, sometimes appdata folders for files. Then I run a find in RegEdit usually related to the program name, sometimes if it is only one program by this vendor I search by vendor name. I've seen issues too with like mapped drives being changed by a nactive directory or login script and sometimes it keeps mapping the old one. we just did a find in regedit for the hostname of the file server deleted it and it was fixed. I've had issues with programs saving things and getting corrupted or they save something the next version comes out and some registry value is messing things up.

Most Windows newbies should delete their Windows Registry.

seeing that linus logo reminded me of that jurassic park scene. Ah ah you didnt say the magic word.

I like finding registry files like windows core parking witch is the best one for overclocers to disable or amd fx cpu owners.

I have a question please How do I change the setting of the Windows through the Registry to make the font size larger in the drop-down menu within the Excel program

Why are drivers disks so small. Why aren't they a standard CD size but mini?

I'd rather have a 'cryptic' error message that tells me exactly what happened. Something like "Error 53. File 'ImportantFile.log' cannot be found. Click OK to terminate the program." is useful, not cryptic. It specifies what the problem is. What I really hate are the modern, condescending, patronizing error messages like "Whoops! Something went wrong there and we need to close down." ... Firstly, that's not constructive in any way, and secondly, any programmer who uses the word "whoops" in their error messages needs to change jobs to a children's TV show presenter. Even the new Windows setup starts off by saying "Hi". It's just cringe worthy. What the hell are Microsoft playing at recently? They used to make really well designed, professional, work oriented software. Now it's like they're trying to make everything usable for idiots.

Can you list reputable Registry clean up programs? Or links? Also, maybe even add in some other programs of the like?

I've used CCleaner before to "fix" my registry and once it made Windows unusable and wouldn't let me make any changes, even though it is a reputable cleaner. This was years ago and it was the first time I used it so I'm guessing it was my own fault, but just be careful about these programs. I also used to have Avira as my anti-virus and in the full-featured version that you have to buy (I just used it once during a trial period) the cleaning utility on that made a massive improvement to my computer's speed and made no errors. Long story short: they can be useful but they can also be fraught with danger if you're not careful, even with the good ones.

Used to change CD key for Titan quest in registry, so we could play online without buying the game.

in b4 lynda.com stop sponsoring after that burn.

when i updated to windows 10 i had problems with ram going up over time and not coming back down to normal usage had to pertinently disable superfetch to sort the problem out

Norton Utilities is the best software suite to keep your system running smooth, for an intensive user like myself.

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Can i have that linus face on my system screen

Unless you have a specific reason to enter the registry. Dont mess with it. I use to use ccleaner on the registry and notice the changes in programs and os operations. Usually had to reinstall the program. Had bad experiences such as freeze ups, mouse keyboard not working at sign on i could go on and on. Just leave it alone.

Okay the transition to the sponsor plug actually made me laugh out loud this time.

Press 3 repeatedly and hear "derp, derp , derp"

PC Tweaks.. rocks \m/

One piece of software I'd recommend if anyone DOES want a good cleaner is Vitsoft Registry Fix. I've found that it CAN sometimes make a measurable difference in Windows performance IF the Windows install has been running for a few years OR something just plain weird's going on. For example, it can affect the response speeds of Windows explorer when browsing the Start Menu, occasionally shave a few seconds off of boot time, etc. I'm not certain about the EXACT SCIENCE here - it may have nothing to do with so-called 'errors' and more to do with the registry size itself, for all I know. Either way it has a nifty built-in backup for the few occasions where something goes wrong. Now, I've run it over a hundred times... and only twice have I ever noticed it causing problems. (Not, I should add, with the same computer. One was with an ancient and esoteric CAD program, the other was with a family member's custom font settings.) Pretty good numbers. I'm curious if anyone else is a fan of it. OR, heck if you have useful criticism of it, or can recommend a better one. Given how hard these things are to really JUDGE with practical results I'm pretty curious.

You guys should do more videos focusing on Linux/Unix and stuff related to that.

3:17 *Girly scream in the background*

Somebody wanted this video xD

ill use CCleaner it can help to rid one self of registry junk it does help with chance of error. i use registry to disable windows core parking with my amd bulldozer build. i really like how my fx-6350 clocked at 4.2ghz all the time all cores. totaling about 5% performance boost and 10% min fps boost in games for real disabling core parking in the registry.

Just used a regedit mod to change the bubbles screen saver into solid colored bubbles so cool

I use it all the time! -Looke Lafr rly? XD

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If you really want to get into it, Win3.11 had a registry of its own, it wasn't where programs could store settings but it did exist. The registry in Win3.11 stored file type associations.

Spy Hunter 4 is brilliant. Got rid of some dodgy left over files that caused some adware in Chrome