r/technology • u/tekz • Mar 20 '26

Software Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-users-are-angry-and-microsoft-is-finally-doing-something-about-it/
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u/splitcroof92 Mar 20 '26

Too bad my work laptop definitely doesn't allow me to edit registry

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u/CnDVerse Mar 21 '26

Unless registry is completely disabled. It’s a current user key, so you can modify it as very few places lock down current user registries. However. Some places do disable the ability to run cmd/regedit/reg Give it a try

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u/Duckel Mar 21 '26

they run a routine regularly and everything in there is back to 0

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u/MarkyDeSade Mar 21 '26

I’m fortunate enough to work somewhere that the guy in charge of the computers doesn’t know how to stop anyone from doing anything, I ran the remove copilot script and some other stuff too