Where is the windows registry kept

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They seem to be read only in our windows 10 testing, because if someone were to change their default from IE to Chrome, at boot, it changes back to IE. Wednesday, February 22, PM. Hi daweberchisago, How did you configure the default program? Thursday, February 23, AM. Sounds like something is protecting the registry.

Try booting in safe mode to see if your changes stick there.