Blog 10 – CIT 114b – Favorite Registry Key

How can I possibly pick ONE favorite registry key out of hundreds? I have worked in the registry doing lots of “fixes” to keep people from changing important home pages, to making a computer not save any documents when it logs off. I have disabled a lot of software in the registry and “hacked” some viruses out of the registry. Being so familiar with the registry makes it very difficult to pick a favorite.
After saying all that, I will pick as my favorite
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main.
Here you can set the default home page, the default search page, make IE open in a maximized screen all the time, and set a few other values if needed. These settings can be helpful if you don't want your home page changed. We did it in the library to make sure our home page showed up when you opened IE.
Back in the day.............see 2005MCJ178 blog for my old computers, we didn't have a registry key data base, we only had Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files.