If there’s one thing that even the most curious Windows users have learned over time, it’s that the registry of this operating system is delicate territory, and one that should sometimes be avoided. And while individual settings can unlock useful functions, removing or adding a value incorrectly can cause serious problems and even lead to having to format or return Windows to a later state.
Something that the YouTube channel “Come on Windows” has bravely taken to the extreme, modifying all entries to contain a zero value. The consequences were drastic, such as .exe files that stopped working, but the operating system continued to run, allowing logins and logouts, and even basic use of Paint and WordPad.
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In their experiment, they used a registry replacement tool, which changed every value to zero, and then ran unconventional tests. While Paint and WordPad continued to work, Windows 10 quickly lost key functionality, including the ability to identify the processor in use. The system even reported a strange “00th Gen Intel Core i7 00800H” as the CPU, evidencing the confusion. They also reported that several Windows folders crashed entirely with “class not registered” messages.
And while Windows apparently allows for logging back in and out of this sorry state, “Come on Windows” confirms in the comments that after a reboot, the system attempts to recover using the automatic repair tool, blaming “corrupted or missing files.”
An experiment that reveals the behavior of Windows 10 in the face of such a reckless act as massively manipulating the registry. Although the method is not exactly scientific, the operating system demonstrated some resistance to this “madness”, which you can see below in the following video (in English).
After forty years of life, Windows Notepad will have a spell checker and autocorrect
One of the most widely used Windows tools will have new features that have been awaited in its forty years of existence. This is Notepad, which in a long-awaited update, Microsoft has finally integrated a spell checker and autocorrect.
Screenshot via The Verge
Features that the company began testing in March 2024, to begin to be quietly available in Windows 11, where they can be enabled for all users of the Operating System. According to reports from those who are already using it, Notepad’s spell checker works almost identically to Word or Edge, underlining misspelled words in red to clearly show errors. And the reports refer to “almost identical”, because when you right-click on a misspelled word in Notepad, the spelling submenu does not automatically expand as Microsoft does in Word.
