File associations are written to the Windows Registry by default. This usually happens during the installation of the operating system and computer software programs. Installing Microsoft Word will make it the default word processor on the computer system with file types like docx or doc opened by it by default. The same is true for [...]
Windows Registry Monitoring With RegFromApp
RegFromApp is a super lightweight Windows Registry monitoring software program that can monitor the Windows Registry changes of selected applications. The Nirsoft application comes with the usual traits which include portability and data export.
The program can be executed right from the location where it was unpacked to after download. It will display a list of [...]
Windows Registry Cleanup Tool
PowerTools Lite is a free software program to cleanup the Windows Registry and operating system. It is actually a lite version of JV16 PowerTools and currently in release candidate stage. The software has been designed with ease of use in mind. It suggests to perform a quick system scan at startup which will display the [...]
USB Flash Drive Write Protection
System administrators might want to limit the use of external USB flash drives by making them read only. This can actually be useful in several situations like preventing users from copying local data to the external device or preventing malicious software from spreading on a computer network using those flash drives.
The Windows operating system has [...]
Windows Registry Watcher
The Windows Registry is one of the major attack locations for malicious software and should therefor be protected by security software to ensure that no settings get changed or added to it. One prime example is the addition of new startup items to the Windows operating system. The Windows Registry contains several locations where those [...]
New Entry In Right Windows XP Start Menu
The Windows XP Start Menu is divided into two parts. The left part can contain custom links to folders and applications while the right part is more or less static. It points to user folders like My Documents or the Control Panel of the Windows operating system. It is possible to change some of the [...]
How To Change The Edit Application In Windows
The Edit option pops up in Windows after right-clicking a file type in Windows Explorer. Windows associated one software program that can be used to edit that file type. For image files it is usually Microsoft Paint while text documents are usually opened in Notepad. Those applications are set in the Windows Registry where they [...]
