The reason there is nothing to be gained by tweaking the registry is because anything you can do inside the registry you can do by entering your control panel. The difference between the two methods of tweaking your Windows behavior is that when you enter the Windows registry through programs such as “regedit” you are left to face the inner workings of your Windows operating system without any help. Doing it this way you risk making a very small mistake which can turn into a major problem.

We all know “to hear his human” but one little error made in a Windows registry could make your operating system unbootable. It could leave you in a position where the only way you could ever get to use the computer again would be by reinstalling your Windows operating system. Doing this, of course, would erase everything on your hard drive. So, all your save files will be gone forever; unless, of course, you’ve backed everything up.

When you change things in the Windows Control Panel you are working with a graphical user interface. You’re given choices of doing things that are all viable. In other words, you wouldn’t be able to change something that would ruin your computer. You could only change things that would change the Windows operating systems slightly. Of course, this is all you are trying to do when you tweak the registry manually. However when you’re working in the registry manually you have no reference point. Changing a file that should include the letter C to a file that includes the letter D instead could be catastrophic! Whereas changing anything in the control panel only lets you make choices that will do no harm.

I’ve seen articles online telling you how to alphabetize your favorites menu using regedit. Alphabetizing your favorites menu by working in the control panel is very easy. So why would you want to risk your operating system altogether by doing something you can do while taking no risk? In short, the rule of thumb about tweaking your registry using a program such as regedit is: don’t do it!

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Microsoft suggests no one work on a Windows registry manually unless he/she is no less than a Microsoft Certified
Professional.  There is good reason Microsoft makes that assertion.  If we are not sure exactly what result changing a certain entry in the in the registry will have, changing this entry will usually have very bad results.  Even worse, these bad results could be irreversible!

The way to go about editing the registry is to use a registry cleaner.  Registry cleaners will restore registries to their best working condition.  This is all I need to know about fixing registries.

The only other thing I need to know about registries themselves is they are altered by any changes we make to our windows operating system.  The changes I mean are things like adding or deleting a software program.  Any change you make in the control panel will change entries in the registry.  In fact, any changes you can make through regedit, you can make and be literally walked through that same change by making it in the control panel.

The question is, why would you want to risk severe damage to your Windows operating system by using regedit when you can easily and safely make any change you could possibly need to make through the control panel?  You can relax when you are making changes through the control panel because if you if should do something weird in there, Windows will pop up a message telling so and ask you if you really want to do it.  Regedit isn’t so forgiving!

So, you can see Microsoft isn’t being smug by not wanting us to tamper directly with their registries by using regedit.  It is just that it is best to heed their advice and steer clear of the temptation to use the Windows registry editor.

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