Tag: registry

All the articles with the tag "registry".

• cmd.exe AutoRun feature = evil feature

  15 Oct, 2019

  A cmd.exe AutoRun registry entry that ran chcp 65001 produced unexpected output that silently broke Node.js and other tools relying on stdout parsing.

• Open Regedit on a specific key

  18 Jul, 2019

  Use the Sysinternals regjump tool installed via Chocolatey to open Registry Editor directly at any specified key path.

• PowerShell Registry Set-ItemProperty gotchas

  9 Jun, 2014

  Documents undocumented Type parameter behavior in Set-ItemProperty and how to correctly read and write typed registry values.

• PowerShell 3 - Attempting to perform the InitializeDefaultDrives operation on the FileSystem provider failed

  5 Jun, 2014

  Fix for a PowerShell 3 startup error caused by disconnected network drives, resolved via a registry key change.

• Windows Task Scheduler silently fails

  5 Jun, 2014

  Diagnoses why a Task Scheduler task silently fails when run without a logged-on user due to unavailable mapped network drives.