# Wowza updates to Windows registry

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-updates-to-windows-registry/48196>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 1, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-updates-to-windows-registry/48196 "2017-03-01T20:46:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Kevin\_Malone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@Kevin\_Malone](https://community.wowza.com/u/Kevin_Malone)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-updates-to-windows-registry/48196/1 "2017-03-01T20:46:38Z")

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We are running Wowza 4.2 in a virtual environment on Windows 2012 R2 servers under VMWare. We need to understand if the 4.2 install makes any changes to the registry. This is in regard to VM backups.