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At its heart, the Windows registry is a hierarchical database. Under the root of registry hierarchy – called My Computer – are root keys that are like subdirectories and they can contain ...

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Piriform's popular Windows-optimization utility includes a Registry-scrubbing component that clears out old application paths, ActiveX controls, shared DLLs, fonts, icons, and other Registry detritus.

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Microsoft is blocking Windows 11 upgrades if customers use applications that create registry keys using some non-ASCII characters.

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This particular registry key just happens to be one of the few where no Windows users or groups have any permissions. Not even read permissions.