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Updated on 2025-04-14

Three Windows registry application tips

1. Prevent anonymous users from logging in

Although Windows 98 can customize its own usage interface and specify passwords for each user, anyone can enter the system by clicking "Cancel" in the login window or pressing the Esc key, which is the so-called anonymous login.

The following method can prevent anonymous users from logging in: Open the Registry Editor (run Regedit), in HKEY_LOCAL_
Create a new DWORD type "MustBeValidated" under MA-CHINE\NetWork\Logon, and its value is "1".

If you forget your password and can't enter, you can enter it in safe mode and change its value to "0".

2. Rearrange input method

Open the registry editor, expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Key-boardlayout\Preload, and you can see multiple subkey names whose key names are incremented from the number "1". The specific number of subkeys corresponds to the input method installed by the system. Now, if you want to exchange the input method corresponding to the subkey name "2" and the input method corresponding to the subkey name "5", that is, move the input method corresponding to the subkey name "5" to the second position, the method is as follows:

Right-click the subkey "2" to select "Rename", rename the subkey "2" to "22" or other non-existent names, then rename the subkey "5" to "2", and finally rename the subkey "22" to "5". This method allows you to reorder all input methods as you want.

3. Handle applications that cannot be removed

Sometimes we encounter a situation where after uninstalling an application in "Add/Remove Applications" in the control panel, we find that the program is still in the list.

At this time, you can delete it from the list by opening the registry editor, enter the directory "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHNE_SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall", and delete the corresponding items to the application according to the listed registration file.