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Terminal > Windows Registry.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not always.

In other news, I feel old.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 ;)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I do the same on Android

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unlocking dev settings is first thing I do on Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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...