registry

How to remove git from menu context in Documents?

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I Think I’ve found other reference about it. I’ve delete mine on HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\LibraryFolder\background\shell Based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/32490883/4906348, Quite simple, I never think about it. You should see like this. From This To This. It works. Note For Windows 10, there may be also keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\background\shell and/or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shell\git_shell which you may have to delete as well.

Comment in REG file

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It’s enough to put semicolon before comment on the same line. In another words, semicolon before comment is supported by reg file on a line with registry entry as well as a full-line of comment. References Minus sign to delete, semicolon to comment and IF/ENDIF mentioned here: MSDN: Registry File (Compact 2013) (Archived here.)

Detect whether Office is 32bit or 64bit via the registry

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From TechNet article on 64-bit editions of Office 2010: If you have installed Office 2010 including Microsoft Outlook 2010, Outlook sets a registry key named Bitness of type REG_SZ on the computer on which it is installed. The Bitness registry key indicates whether the Outlook 2010 installation is 32-bit or 64-bit. This may be useful … Read more

What registry access can you get without Administrator privileges?

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In general, a non-administrator user has this access to the registry: Read/Write to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Read Only: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (which is just a link to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes) It is possible to change some of these permissions on a key-by-key basis, but it’s extremely rare. You should not have to worry about that. For your purposes, your application … Read more