Registry Entries for User Preferences

Information about Registry entries for user preferences about the following topics can be found in this section:

Hive information for user profiles

International

Console

Keyboard and keyboard layout

Colors, patterns, and screen savers

Mouse

Cursors

Multimedia and sound

Desktop

Network

Environment variables

Program Manager

File Manager

Windows


The information presented here is primarily for troubleshooting, showing the default entry values and explaining the meaning of important entries. There are no hidden values that you can set for user preferences. All of these values can be set using the icons in Control Panel or the tools in the Administrative Tools group, or other programs provided with Windows NT.

All Registry paths shown here are for HKEY_CURRENT_USER, to show how you can view entries for the currently logged on user. However, most of these entries also appear in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT, where changing entries will change values for the default user profile.