What If You Delete the Windows Registry?
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DELETE THE REGISTRY!
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:14 - What is the Registry?
2:38 - Deleting the Registry
4:59 - Observing The Results
6:18 - The Backup Copy
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Obviously the registry is an essential part of the Windows operating system. It's basically a big database of low-level settings for Windows, including everything from the taskbar transparency, to the background login image, to settings in 3rd party programs. Deleting it would ruin the computer, but what exactly would that look like? This video is a real live demonstration and test on what will happen!
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Наука
“Do not try this at home”
*takes computer outside*
But what if i live in a Apartment?
@@Someonewithaspace considered a home
WhaT🤨
I did it ok grounded for a year
HAHAHAHA! 😂🤣
When you delete it:
Registry: "Mr. Win32…"
Registry: "I don't feel so good"
😂😂😂
I Don't wan't go
He is deleted so he can't say anything
@@LoLingVo DDLC much?
You should have gone for the head
"do not try this at home"
*well school is a place with pcs*
Segazi oh boi.....
*angry teacher noises*
*Do not do this on a computer.*
@@robertchapman2174 you hade to ruin it
@@robertchapman2174 r/wooooooooooooosh
you might get kicked out of school if you destroy a pc by deleting the windows registry
Joe : Do not try this at home
Also Joe : *tries it at his home*
He has VM machine (dont woooosh me karma whores)
@@wen5942
r/woooosh
You can't escape the woooosh
@@wen5942 you assume all wooooshers actually care about reddit enough to know what karma means?
in backyard
@@wen5942 he's still in his home
*Thats a lotta damage*
RIP
ThioJoe RIP indeed
Only the almighty flex seal can fix this mess
Nova The Pug exactly..where’s Phil when we need him!
Let’s put some *FLEX TAPE*
I have accidentally overwritten Windows 7 registry with Windows 98 registry before. Had to reinstall. This was during GTA Vice City registry patch. Should have checked .reg file before executing it lol.
rip
Whoeveer made that .reg file is the most evil person on the planet :')
F
*F* but in bold
nice *CaC*
4:30 that's because you deleted the SSD / HDD drivers, and now it's using the (much) slower legacy drivers
yes
Do even hdd ssd have drivers
@@xtremispubg8959 of course, any hardware device needs some kind of drivers for windows to communicate with it
@@xtremispubg8959 most of the time Windows comes preinstalled with old, basic drivers that support all hard drives, but they're very slow
@@helyxmusic I hate the microsoft basic display adapter.
A better way to delete the registry is to delete the files itself that contain the hives. They are located in %systemroot%\System32\Config. Other registry-specific files are %userprofile%\Ntuser.dat, which contains user-specific data and %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat, which contain per-user file associations.
EDIT: After I saw that ThioJoe used the "backup" of the registry hives that are 0 KB large files to "restore" the registry, he essentialy "deleted" the registry.
Thanks I hate someone and will use this info
Correct
It seems like you didn't notice the registry backup files had a filesize of 0KB, that must be the reason they didn't fix anything.
wow xD
I thought the same.
Came here to say the same thing.
Because registry sometimes does not use any storage
If it EVER did not use ANY storage, windows would not run.
Windows: "I don't feel so good..."
nah your fine jsut keep deleting and you be good to go
Mac: I finally did it! Ha ha ha
@@justinx.4206
**opens terminal**
sudo rm -rf /
stolen
Says the Person with protogent Profile pic 😂😂😂
ThioJoe: *Do not try this at home.*
Me: _does it at school_
3:28 - My first heart attack
6:40 All of those backup files have 0KB size. I guess the installation was so fresh it didn't have a moment to actually make a proper registry backup, so there were empty files instead. And, well, you replaced registry files that still had something in them with completely empty 0KB ones, and you broke it even more. lol
yeah! No one sees that. A good backup would have fixed it!
Well, still doesn't exclude the fact that it was obvious this backup wouldn't help from the very moment it was on screen.
PikachuPL registry is backed up as part of System Restore feature, to my understanding. I would ensure system restore is turned on for your PC if you are seeing no registry backups
*NUT*
+PikachuPL
Wrong. Windows back up files aren't 0kb files after months of using windows 10 lulwat?
Windows registry = file system within file system.
dam dud he didnt like ur comment
You guys clearly don't know what a database is. He even said in the video that it's basically a database for all of windows settings. Your feeble minds turned it into the nearest thing you could associate since you seen drop downs and folder icons. The windows registry hive is presented like that with a graphical tool to make for easy navigation, it's a structured set of data with settings presented to you with a gui.
Jeordie White r/iamverysmart
I mean, I'm pretty familiar with how databases work. I've written a DB implementation based on an AVL tree. Filesystems themselves are pretty damn similar a lot of the time. Mostly some kind of serialized tree structure on disk. The registry is very similar to the structure of a regular filesystem, although the key value pairs are restricted to a given type. So as far as I'm concerned, it's pretty much a filesystem within a filesystem, where files can have a restricted type. The access pattern would be the same, as the means to query data would be to follow a path rather than to actually query contents or keys, which is very similar to a database. It's seemingly more similar to a filesystem than a DBMS, and it's indexing would probably be very similar based on their nearly identical access patterns. Regardless filesystems within filesystems isn't uncommon, there are a lot of virtual filesystems, especially in unix and linux.
file system within file system within file system
Thiojoe: Don’t try this at home
Me: ok
Also me: _Tries at work
Siam Mehedi We all know
UAC?
Siam Mehedi...... r/woooooooosh
@@SiamMehediactually its 2024 now ig
I love that the RegBack files in the folder are just 0 KB lol
What would happen if you tried to put the Recycle bin into the Recycle Bin?
We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could, that we didn’t stop to think if we should.
Goes in a D drive partition for some reason on Windows XP, has the recycle bin icon and is called recycled bin. Really odd.
The recycling bin collapses in on itself and forms a small black hole in your computer
ERROR 404
69.exe has crashed
What would happen if you tried to put the My Computer into the Recycle Bin?
*D O W N L O A D M O R E R A M*
You can't you only can give games more GB's of ram
r/woosh
@@overloader7900 u
@@poltergeist8019 no u
@@kite2241 no u
The computer needs a doctor. CALL THE AM-BU-LANCE!
"Do not try this at home"
*takes computer with me into my car*
Why do I always feel like you’re a mixture of Jacksfilms and LinusTechTips
I'm late af but he could be, you never know
Sounds and looks like jacksfilms and has the brain of LTT
JackTechTips
@@alexithink_smo Or Linusfilms
I really love this new style of "what if" videos you are making, because its everything that I ever wondered about Windows made into an entertaining video! Please continue this and keep up the good work my man!
They are the best ones
True!
I love your efforts just to show us cases. Great effort Thanks
ThioJoe: don’t try this at home
Me: **trys it at my cousins house**
😂😂😂😂
Still a home
5:19 YESSS which one breaks Edge?
Yonatan Avhar nooooo I wanna know that
Y’all remember when this guy made videos on how to download more ram?
Oscar Nagy did he???
TheGamerBoy1192 ye
yes
That was when he was starting out and was trying to make a joke channel. Nowadays, he's generally a tad more serious and tries to give information which is actually useful.
But you can do that but you won't get more you can give games extra gb's of ram but you will still have your same GB's
Thio Joe : DONT try this at home
Me : too late
Xd
WHAT ?!!
WHAT??!?!
This is great. Something I'd never attempt. Glad you did it for us.
Not too bad if it breaks anything though.
You can just fix it with flex tape, right?
Scientific Stevie yes
Yes it will
YeY
0101010101010101010101010101010101101010101010101010101010101010101
yeah
Not flex tape hot glue fixes everthing
Scientific Stevie NO! It's not like 5he time you broke your sword toy and fixed it with flex tape! Your breaking virtual things that are VITAL!
Didn't know you could delete windows registry. Anways great video as always!
PS you should make this a series
Great idea
poop fliss what does it do
@@andersyu4464 it just means they are sponsor
Windows registry: HKEY
Me: huh KEY
Hentai KEY
@@gdelusiveplayz3609 lol wtf
I have a program I got years ago (more designed for network computers) and it was called RegTool (not related to any of the virus programs or current programs of the same name) It allowed the user to search across keys and values, delete/replace globally across the registry, create/backup restore different versions of the registry and compare registries (presumably to diagnose a faulty computer I assume) My Windows 98SE had slowed down considerably over the years and I found quite quickly that uninstall does not remove many keys and values from the registry. I used this tool to search and remove them and then used a registry cleaner to mop up after. I ended up with at least half the number of keys and values and the speed was dramatically improved. It too had a disclaimer including an example someone that tried doing search and replace changing every instance of the word "Windows" with something else...the warning was "you WILL destroy Windows...count on it".
game THIOry
what happens when you
*delete system32 and windows registry at the same time?*
Computer will explode
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
A Big Explosion
Blue screen of death. Or maybe that’s if you delete both the windows file and the registry.
well basically your computer is just fking dead
Time to delete System31, and Door Registry.
What else?
Normal Viewer Mac64 and rigistree
System31?
Now it’s time to destroy Vindows compoter
How about... Phone bacteria?
System64
Very good videos. You pose questions that I wonder about, but that I don't have the nerve or knowledge to find out. In the process, I learn more from you about how to get the best out of my computer.
"Do not try this at home"
Well... School has computers.
There's likely no significant amount of warnings for the registry editor because it's pretty hard to get to it accidentally and figures you know what you're doing.
It was funny. I was working for a company about 15 - 20 years ago and after development getting DLLs from a repository and registering new versions there was a lot of bloated unused stuff in the registry. One of our 'more brilliant' developers 'Nole' wrote his own regclean application to clean up the crap left in there. He walked over with it on a floppy and gave it to a more senior developer and said he had tested it etc. The person took the floppy, and his word and ran it on his computer... and that was the end of that computer. The regclean apparently completely (I mean completely) deleted everything out of the registry so the OS could no longer find parts of the OS itself. It is a story that lives on -- long after the person left...
It would be nice if RegEdit showed which program installed which key, or, if a key was modified, what the original setting was. Also would be nice if it showed which keys were made/edited by an admin/user. And if you could search for those things specifically.
Joe: Do not try this at home.
Me on a virtual machine: You were saying?
I remember I was following a tutorial on how to do something in registry and then I deleted the wrong folder that I should have and it ruined basically every executable, I somehow managed to look up the internet that very specific folder with its keys and reconstruct it. phew.
Can you help me i did that too my graphics driver and its ruined i vant back up doesnt work :(
@@letmego4181 have you solved the problem?
@@xinhui990312 actually i did but it comes with a cost but it was worth it if you have discord i can add ypu and we can call over it
This is hilarious definitely going to have a bad day if you try this. Why don't for your next video see if you can use PowerShell to break windows
Commented posted 18 hrs ago! This video was posted 1 hr ago! HOW 😮
Hes a channel member so he gets videos early.
@@synthesthea OML that makes sooooo much sense 😂😂
rm -rf /*?
5 bucks gets you alot
My friend was annoyed by Caps Lock, he used the Registry Editor to bind the Caps Lock function to F24. He also binded the Caps Lock key to a bunch of useful stuff that he normally would need keybinds for.
For curious: F24 exists in Windows because of back compatibility, but the F12 - F24 keys do not exists in today's keyboards.
thanks. Now I have a new way to f up my pc. 😊
And hate that thing too.
*f13 to f24
Thanks for cheering me up during times of having flu, my thio boi
"Nothing is working!"
How is this different from normal windows I'm lost
Me too.
its an application that you can have a windows installation in ur pc without changing ur main pc
@@quackerman234 you didnt get it
@@paristath6773 wait is he saying that basically windows never works
@@quackerman234 yes
It is possible to restore the registry if it has been deleted or if a portion of it is so corrupt that the computer won't boot. The system occasionally makes backups of the registry and puts it in a very secret hidden location. (You have to search Microsoft to find out where it is located.) You need to know the location of the backup and the normal location of the registry.
To restore the registry, remove the boot disk from the computer and mount it as an external drive on a different computer. Then copy the latest backup of the registry (noting the file dates) into the normal location. Put the disk back into the original computer and boot it up.
If you installed any software after the date of the backup, reinstall it, and check all the settings you may have changed. You should be back in business.
This is a lot easier than a complete reinstall (took me 15 minutes) and it is a good last resort before wiping the disk and starting over again.
Yeah❤🎉
0:48 then i will try it at school
Lol
I didn't like school
Thanks a lot for the tutorial.
The registry was introduced in Windows 3.11, but wasn't fully used until Windows 95. Windows is the only operating system, that I know off, that uses a registry. I am careful when I make a change in the registry.
What if you set everything in the registry to 0
That's basically the same as deleteing
I tried going into the registry in a vm and after I deleted some folders I started changing everything to 69. It showed the same error as in the video when booting up.
@@ixalaz4536 nice
@@ixalaz4536 nice
@@ixalaz4536 try changing everything to 420
4:56 it wasn’t the registry it was *DUOLINGO!*
Oof
i wanna do this to school computers now lol
:D lets doit
i don't think you can lmao
I messed around with registry editor one day and somehow enabled the seconds on the clock.
WoW!
how
NumberblocksFan 64
I don’t remember how.
NumberblocksFan 64 search it up on RUclips there many tourtuals on how to
@@want-diversecontent3887 a legend after 2 years
That moment when you mess up your old notebook laptop and you deleted the UI itself so you have to use ctrl alt delete with the task manager to get around.
Yes too bad if it breaks anything though.
You can just fix it with flex tape, right?
It's for reasons like this that if something bad was to happen to my computer that I right away ordered backup recovery software from my computers manufacture so I could do a factory reset if the worst was to happen. This way I don't have to pay a computer shop to reinstall my operating system. I always store my data on external storage. So I never have to worry about losing that info. And even so, every couple of years I like to do a fresh install of my operating system to help wipe out all the garbage that doesn't normally get deleted during normal maintenance cycles.
TJ: Don't try this in home!
Me: *watchin' this on my arch
On the one hand, it's great fun to see what happens if the Registry is deleted. On the other hand, it's pathetic that one of the largest pieces of software in terms of lines of code, distribution, regular use at many different levels etc., relies on a virtually unprotected, outdated and poorly backed-up 'tissue paper' database.
How old is Windows now (rhetorical question)? Old enough for under-grad kind of trash such as this to have been developed out of it. Is the Registry in the Enterprise edition so exposed to destruction?
I use Erunt to back my Registry up at the start and end of each session. I keep the backups off-machine, but to be honest, I don't know that even Erunt saves the Registry in full, YMMV.
I could be wrong, but don't hackers want to USE victims' computers? Either as a botnet or for stealing information/redirect/ads/ransom. Destroying one computer doesn't seem to useful. Also, regedit requires admin privileges, virtually identical to sudo. You might as well say *nix is unstable/crap because sudo can delete /.
and YEPE!
@Ian Harrison Windows 1.0 was published in 1987 which was ~32 years ago
Going out of the realm of software, I’d like to see what happens if you open up your PC, take a wire and connect 1 end to one of the pins on a RAM chip, then touch the other end to random pins on the RAM chip. Same thing applies to other chips on the motherboard.
Virtual machines are basically an operating system but it’s an app that behaves exactly like a brand new installation of windows
Idk why these videos make me laugh so much 😂
RIP Windows Registry
April 1992 - August 2018
F
F
F I still ue it for stuff
F
F
This video made my skin crawl. Even the thought of it freaks me out.
Me: deletes "computer" in the registry editor
Computer: adios
Thanks Thio
Video idea: 10 DUMB Ways To Destroy Your Windows Installation
I mean if you plan to reinstall windows you may want to destroy old one before formatting PC.
Dumb Ways To Die *Windows Edition*
Why would I want to destroy an old installation before reinstalling?
@@srccde Why not?
@Shakir GPYT why are you answering on a year old comment?
I'm not sure deleting the whole registry from the registry editor is a good approach. I think what you'd want to do is just delete whatever files the registry is stored in completely (using another OS if needed), and get the same effect for a lot less work. That said, I wonder what parts of the registry could be deleted without making Windows unbootable? What would be the minimum configuration needed to get it running?
I would say it's definitely possible to get that installation working again, though. The main thing keeping it from getting any further into the boot process is the total lack of understanding what kind of hardware it's even running on. Windows basically has no idea what kind of chipset drivers to even use to read the hard drive once control is handed off from the BIOS now. Deleting the registry now is like if you deleted the WIN.INI file in Windows 3.11 that tells Windows what video card driver to use, only worse because there's no DOS underneath it running IO.SYS.
So if you really wanted to get the installation back, you would only need a working copy of the registry from an installation of Windows on equivalent hardware. The easiest way to get that would be to reinstall Windows on another hard drive using the same machine, then take that version of the registry and put it into the broken installation. Granted, you would have to do more work to get programs dependent on the registry that didn't come with Windows to work again, entering and creating a bunch of registry keys they require by hand, but it can be done.
A fresh installation of Windows would certainly be easier, but if you can get access to the file system, you can fix it eventually.
i cant believe this man had to yeet the entire virtual machine just for it to restart
Me: **deletes one registry key**
Windows: **Takes a critical damage**
Discord squad
Hey thio try to run 100 viruses in your virtual machine
Yesne of this REGISTERS with my mind.
@ThioJoe i love your content keep up the awesome work
On school computers, I used to login and one of the first things is it would say is applying registry policy, I wasn't a computer geek yet so I thought the registry policy was a policy needed to register an account
6:25 if u did this on a fresh install you had to make sure system restore was on as those 'backup' registry files u used were ZERO Kb.
you need to create a system restore point which gets created the minute u install an update or anything significant like office.
so you could ha e fixed this, you jua5 didnt prep for the video i guess or simply sisnt know this little nuget of undocumented info
also system restore is not always on by default on a fresh inatall of windows especially with the many flavours of 10
from memory 1509 had it off after a fresh load but turned on after updating.
had u ran system restore by invoking it from winpe you would have fixed this.
wildows is pretty hard to break.
What language art thou speaking?
@@ariel8856 He is speaking in intelligence
He is speaking the language of gods.
@@fatihyldz2283 listen my son. thou shalt procure a new windows 10 iso and thou shalt test my word on a hyperv machine on said machine with said iso and thou shalt learn from thy lesson and pray thou not cross thy God's path.
None of this REGISTERS with my mind.
No.
Interesting video! I'm having a lot of fun watching you break the computer. (Even though it's on a virtual machine. ) 😂😂🤣🤣
Ima try this at home...
on a virtual computer, must see this myself
Windows "uh what a great day"
ThioJoe "deleting everything"
Windows "why me"
Gigabites "999999999 GB"
Games "oof"
ThioJoe "OK done"
Windows "no don't do it"
ThioJeo "presses button""bye Windows
What
i became dyslexic reading that
For people who don't understand:
Windows: *Hello! :)*
ThioJoe: *I'm about to ruin this man's whole career*
Windows: *:( Why me? I didn-*
ThioJoe: Deletes everything
Apps: *Noooooo*
Games: *Noooooo*
Free space: *helo*
ThioJoe: `Deletes System32 *goodbye.*
Can you do Linux stuff
Linux is dead, everyone moved to HaikuOS and BSD
sudo rm -rf /*
actually, it's
sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
why on eaeth would you do that? Linux sux.BALLS.
@weaktech
youtube is 13+
I wouldn't even think to mess with the registry unless I lost my mind
“The registry editor is not a toy”
Power users: is that a challenge?
Video starts at 2:39
ty
Gaming with GusGus369 no, it starts at 0:00
NOTE: i was just joking
@@phil9193 XD
i forgot about registry i just watched what happens when you delete system 32
Didn't even watch yet - but pressed like only for the wonderful ideas you have.
This man is a living task manager.
What might it look like if you could delete every single file that *isn't* critical to running the system?
Stuff like icon art and maybe secondary backup files
Torvic Is Santa lol it'd be kinda funny, usable but ugly
Just go into the recycle bin and restore everything, It's that easy.
@Queen r/woooosh
Thio: says he will mention sys32 at the end
Also Thio: makes it appear at the i icon
me: deletes the windows registry
me: downloads MEMZ trojan to not get caught
my teacher on go guardian: uhh what's happening to your computer.
me: I dele- I MEAN I think my computer has a virus.
teacher: ok.. bring it to the office
me: ok
also me in the halls: Mission passed + respect
What if you deleted everything
The boot partition would be practically unrecoverable, And you’d need a completely new setup.
Yeah! Delete more stuff thio! Lol
Apparently I never got notified of this when it first came out maybe I got notification and just dismissed it because I was in a rush but glad I found it now because I enjoyed it
Is it just me or does the windows registry logo just look epic
My PC is faster after deleting System32
Discord Squad
“Don’t try this at home”
*Tries in computer store*
Wow thanks❤️
“Real life demonstration”... proceeds to use virtual machine.
He doesn't want to mess up his real computer
Title: Deleting the whole windows registry.
ThioJoe: What happens if you delete a bunch of registry values
Who would waste a computer on a vid
5:39 🅱️
The registry editor if used responsively or with precautions it can be a really usefull program
So cool vid!!!