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    Terminal > Windows Registry.

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    [–] kuneho@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I mean, fucking with the registry was always a thing in windows

    [–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Not always.

    In other news, I feel old.

    [–] kuneho@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

    Struggling with INI and SYS files are also kinda the same, but you are right, it was a far stretch

    [–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Technically correct. The registry was introduced in Windows 95. But ever since then, fucking with it has been a thing.

    [–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I just admitted to remembering working with Windows 3.11 for networking...

    Also, being technically correct is the best kind of correct I'll have you know ;)

    [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Well, sure, but this has a user hostile motive behind it.

    Microsoft could have offered a right-click/disable internet search to facilitate. However, they wanted people to just give up and soak in start-menu driven internet action, so they buried the option in an obscure registry key.

    The key is the start menu search to internet really makes the experience suck, as you try to type something on local system and some internet result gets prioritized, and by nature of the internet search, the internet search is unpredictable, so the search you do every day that usually opens up what you expect suddenly starts going to some internet site in edge.

    [–] kuneho@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

    don't get me wrong, by no means this isn't shitty, it is.

    I'm just saying Windows too always had its tinkering with the registry or in text files, you just normally did that on the GUI or used EDIT.

    [–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Speeding Windows 7 desktop up by changing animation duration of taskbar & co. from 400 ms to less.

    [–] kuneho@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Unlocking dev settings is first thing I do on Android.

    [–] soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

    Android has become such an unusable mess otherwise...

    I mean, you can't even find the option to allow sideloading on my Android TV box without first enabling developer mode...