To determine where Microsoft Windows will look for device driver files during the Windows setup process, you need to examine the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion.
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion.
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Remember, you must be careful when editing the registry. Mistakes in editing registry entries can cause significant problems.
As an alternative to the above method, you can use this shortcut-arrow-removal.reg registry file, which will delete the IsShortcut key from the registry. Download the file (you can right-click on the link and choose "download", "save link target as", or whatever your browser ues to initiate a download) and then, once it is downloaded, double-click on the file on your system. When prompted "Are you sure you want to add the information in shortcut-arrow-removal.reg to the registry?", select "Yes". That action will result in the key being removed; the prompt about adding information is just the default message that appears whenever you click on a .reg file.
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While troubleshooting an Internet access problem on a system, I noticed a lot of entries for dubious sites in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\P3P\History\. There were a lot of keys for domain names I know are associated with adware/spyware, such as 180solutions.com, brilliantdigital.com, and exactsearchbar.com. There were a lot of other dubious sounding domain names, such as casinoking.com, casinolasvegas.com, and casinodelrio.com. When I checked the values of the keys, I noticed they were all set as follows:
| Name | Type | Data |
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| (Default) | REG_DWORD | 0x00000005 (5) |
At Microsoft's WinInet Registry settings webpage, I found the following:
Per Site Cookie Handling
To handle site-by-site cookies, per-domain cookie decisions are stored under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\P3P\History\<domain> key. The domains are added to the registry by WinInet when the user adds sites by using the Per Site Privacy Actions dialog box.
The default value of the <domain> key stores the decision value. The following table shows the possible values.
Value Description REG_DWORD: 1 (COOKIE_STATE_ACCEPT) Accept all cookies from this site. REG_DWORD: 5 (COOKIE_STATE_REJECT) Reject all cookies from this site.
So a value of five in the key will block cookies from a site listed with that value. The values were probably placed there by one of the antispyware programs I previously installed on the system.
Internet Explorer 6 apparently checks the P3P keys to determine whether to allow a site to place a cookie on the system as described in IE6 and cookies. P3P stands for Platform for Privacy Preferences.
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