Windows Registry Torn Apart

Registry is the core of opreating system.The registry in windows system  is central database of all configuration setting for almost all the application installed on you compuer. Microsoft Windows uses it to store all the settings of the opreating system and installed softwares.It allows you to change many settinng of windows as well as other installed software,which otherwise
are not accessiable through the interface provided by the application. If you know how to user windows registry,you can make your computer what you want it to be,at the same time it is very dangerous to edit the registry. One single mistake can crash your computer.There are many software avaiable on the internet which can be used to change the registry. But we are  hackers :D and good hackers don't use any software,they do all the things by themseleves.


To open up the registry.go to start>Run>type REGEDIT in the run box and hit enter.
Here you will see it will display five root entries.
1.HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
2.HKEY_CURRENT_USER
3.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
4.HKEY_USERS
5.HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG



All these settings are not stored in a single file,but are sepreated into mulrtiple files.Now,let us look what kind of setting are stored in each section.after reading this you will bre able to navigate registry with a greater ease and will easily be able to find the setting you are looking for.


HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
This part of registry is responsiable for storing file assocotions and information about applications registred for handhandeling different data types. These settings can be overridden by the current user's settings for the same stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Classes


HKEY_CURRENT_USER
According to the description in Microsoft TechNet: This key contains the user profiles for the user who is currently  logged on to the computer. This user profile includes environment variables, personal program groups, desktop settings, network connection, printers, and application preferences. The data in the user profile is similar to the data stored in win.ini file in Windows 3.x .


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
According to the description given by Microsoft TechNet: This sub tree contains the information about the local computer which includes hardware and software data. The software sub key present in this key contains system setting for application installed in windows. These settings are usally present in Company/Product/version.


HKEY_USERS
This key consist of user configuration keys for very user using the computer. It only contains one subkey for each user which is named according to user's security ID.


HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
The information present in this key is almost similar to the information present in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles\Current and contains information generated at the run time.


Don't just open up the Registry and start changeing different values, before creating or chan geing any value be sure what you are doing. If you any wrong value is changed by you it can seriously affect your opreating system. But I know your guys are definetly going to change different setings and mess around with the registry aren't y0u. Naughty!