Windows Registry Folders

[Smartphone2008]

Hey, I was looking at the different Registery hacks you could do on Windows​ 8.1 and I'm just curious what the different folders contain, H_KEY ROOT, H_KEY CURRENT USERS, H_KEY SOFTWARE....
Feel free to reply, thanks!

 

[canadianvice]

Hey, I was looking at the different Registery hacks you could do on Windows​ 8.1 and I'm just curious what the different folders contain, H_KEY ROOT, H_KEY CURRENT USERS, H_KEY SOFTWARE....
Feel free to reply, thanks!

Broadly, those segregate the settings according to user profile. Ultimately, the registry is designed to hold global settings and contains a lot of OS integral stuff.

HKRT -> Totally universal stuff across the system
HKLM -> Designed for the local computer, most of the hacks end up here.
HKCU -> Only for the current user account
HKSW -> Global settings for software like uninstall paths and stuff

It's extremely broad what each category has and there's a lot of overlap.

 

[USAFRet]

And whenever you start messing around in the Reg...make a backup of it first.
Change one wrong key....and you can hose up the system completely.