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Books : Computers & Internet : Programming : APIs & Operating Environments : Microsoft Windows Registry
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Get the in-depth information you need to modify—and seamlessly manage—the Windows registry. Written for IT professionals and power users, this vital resource reveals little-known registry techniques, tricks, tips, and secrets to make your job easier. Understand the inner workings of the Windows operating system—and use the registry to get Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP to run the way you want, on a single desktop or across the network. You’ll learn how to pinpoint registry settings and script registry changes, deal with registry permissions, use Windows Installer, and map Tweak UI settings. Also, find best practices for how to back up, restore, and maintain registry settings with confidence. The CD includes 100+ registry files for customizing operating system appearance and behavior, and the complete eBook. You’ll learn how to:- Apply best practices to back up, restore, manage, and modify the registry
- Customize group and system policies to manage multiple PCs and users remotely
- Track down registry settings and script changes
- Optimize server services, including network connections and authentication
- Deploy user profiles and Microsoft Office program settings
- Configure security services, including Windows Firewall, templates, and service pack features
- Troubleshoot the registry—resolving common problems and corruption issues
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Expert Advice for Windows XP Power Users
Created for Windows power users and anyone who aspires to be one, Mastering Windows XP Registry provides focused, practical coverage of Windows' most important--and most challenging--element: the registry. Inside, you'll learn to customize Windows XP, optimize the network, and avoid scores of potential disasters, all by working with registry settings. If you're a power user, a system administrator, programmer, or consultant, this guide is absolutely essential.
Coverage includes:
* Understanding registry keys and data types
* Applying the secrets of the most important registry keys
* Adjusting the Windows GUI through registry settings
* Using the registry in networking
* Optimizing performance by editing registry settings
* Working with registry tools
* Recovering from disasters
* Eliminating unwanted keys, entries, applications, and files
* Taking advantage of the registry in your own programs
* Tracking registry changes made by applications
* Navigating registry entries
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Targeting IT professionals, system administrators, and experienced users moving to the Windows XP platform, this book enables the user to master registry concepts and architecture, provides a historical overview of the registry, and outlines the differences between Windows 9x/ME and Windows NT/2000/XP registries. Special attention is drawn to the enhancements in registry architecture introduced with Windows XP, such as faster queries and removal of the registry size limitation. Covered in depth are how to properly use registry features, how to plan and implement the most appropriate registry backup strategy, and how to monitor and modify the system registry according to the administrative requirements and individual needs of the users.
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The Windows 2000 Registry is the repository for all hardware, software, and application configuration settings, and Managing the Windows 2000 Registry is the system administrator's guide to maintaining, monitoring, and updating the Registry database. The book, which is an update of Managing the Windows NT Registry, addresses four main areas:- What is the Registry? Where does it live on disk? How do system services access and use it? What do you do if it's damaged or corrupted? Every 2000 administrator faces questions like this, often in a desperate attempt to fix something that's broken.
- What tools are available? Detailed descriptions of Regedit, RegEdt32, the System Policy Editor, Group Policy Editor and selected Resource Kit utilities explain how to edit and secure the Registry both on local and on remote computers.
- How can I access the Registry from a program? Regularly monitoring the Registry's contents is one way to preclude unpleasant surprises. Using examples in C++, Visual Basic, and Perl, Managing the Windows 2000 Registry demonstrates how to create Registry-aware tools and scripts.
- What's in the Registry? Not all Registry keys are adequately documented by Microsoft or by the other vendors who store configuration data in the Registry. Managing the Windows 2000 Registry offers a guided tour of some of these undocumented keys.
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This hands-on, results-oriented title lets you take control of Windows 98 and squeeze every possible bit of performance from Windows 98. You learn how the registry works. You get the information you need to back up, edit and repair your registry. Plus you're shown the relationships between various parts of the registry and the various parts of your PC so you can more effectively manage your system. You'll also find extensive customization and personalization information as well as dozens of ways to make your system faster and more responsive to your particular application's needs.
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Here's the ideal preparatory tool for the ARRT registry exam. Comprised of a study guide section which provides an easy-to-follow outline of every topic found in the registry exam, an extensive question and answer section which reinforces strengths and identifies weaknesses, and two 200 question "mock registry exams" with rationales. Features helpful post-tests at the end of each chapter with over 900 questions and over 150 illustrations including line drawings, charts, graphs, and radiographs. Includes free software featuring 800 test questions.
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The Registry is the massive, sprawling nerve center of all things Windows 95. The Registry is one place that you don't want to traverse without a guide, and what better guide than Windows 95 Registry For Dummies, your all-in-one reference to customizing the Registry (safely) to suit your own special computing needs. In Windows 95 Registry For Dummies, you discover tricks and tips you can use to improve the reliability, speed, security, and ease of using Windows 95. You can also find helpful, easy-to-understand advice on Customizing the Registry with -- or without -- the Registry Editor Adding safeguards to protect your vital system information Putting advanced Windows 95 features to work through the Registry's system policies and user profiles Adding new hardware with the painless ease of Plug and Play Making your desktop faster, leaner, meaner, and safer Troubleshooting the top 20 Registry problems As an added bonus, this clear, easy-to-follow reference includes a CD-ROM packed with handy utilities and trial versions of software programs to make managing your Registry a snap.
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Now you can ignore the ominous warnings and set your registry fears aside thanks to John Woram's new book, The Windows 98 Registry: A Survival Guide For Users. Despite Microsoft's well-documented recommendations to not configure, customize, or in any way alter registry files, Woram demonstrates how the Windows registry is the most effective way to optimize your PC.The Windows 98 Registry: A Survival Guide For Users explains how to repair a corrupted registry, troubleshoot common problems, remove leftovers," and edit INI files. Woram also includes a complete blueprint of the six HKEYs and an appendix dedicated to Tweak UI and the registry. So temper your registry trepidation with The Windows 98 Registry: A Survival Guide For Users and start getting the most out of your Windows PC.
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Enabling system, network, and security administrators to master Registry concepts and architecture, this book provides a historical overview of the Registry and outlines the differences between Windows 9x/ME and Windows NT/2000/XP/.NET Registries. Special attention is given to the enhancements in Registry architecture introduced with Windows XP and .NET such as faster queries and removal of the registry size limitation. Administrators are shown how to properly use Registry features, plan and implement the most appropriate Registry backup strategy, and monitor and modify the system registry according to the administrative requirements and the security policy adopted by the organization with respect to the needs of end-users. Total coverage is provided of the Windows XP and Windows .NET reliability enhancements such as Volume Snapshot Service, Windows File Protection, Automated System Restore, Driver Rollback, and Recovery Console. Advanced topics include Plug and Play implementation; device management including support for Smart devices such as Pocket PC, SmartPhone 2002, and Tablet PC; power management feature; and the role of the system Registry in the boot process.
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Expert Advice for Windows 2000 Administrators, Programmers, and Power Users
Mastering Windows 2000 Registry takes you to guruhood fast. Created for experienced system administrators, programmers, and consultants, this reference provides focused coverage of Windows' most important--and most challenging--element: the Registry. Inside, you'll learn to customize Windows 2000, optimize the network, and avoid scores of potential disasters, all by working with Registry settings. If you have to be prepared to troubleshoot the latest version of Windows, this guide is absolutely essential. Coverage includes:
* Understanding registry keys and data types
* Applying the secrets of the most important registry keys
* Adjusting the Windows UI through registry settings
* Using the registry in networking
* Optimizing performance by editing registry settings
* Working with registry tools
* Recovering from disasters
* Eliminating unwanted keys, entries, applications, and files
* Taking advantage of the registry in your own programs
* Tracking registry changes made by applications
* Navigating registry entries
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![The Windows Registry as a forensic resource [An article from: Digital Investigation]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JGB7BBCWL._SL160_.jpg)
This digital document is a journal article from Digital Investigation, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Description:
The Windows Registry contains a wealth of information that can prove to be very valuable to the forensic investigator. The key to accessing this information is to know where the information exists within not only the file system, but also within the structure of the Registry itself.
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Exploring the complex database of code known as the Windows 95 Registry isn't an adventure for the faint of heart. The Windows 95 Registry is the central repository for all things '95 (and the forthcoming upgrade, Windows 98), including hardware settings and how each Windows program begins, runs, and closes. Thankfully, author Kathy Ivens offers hope ñ and loads of practical, how-to advice ñ on navigating this complicated web of Windows settings in a clear and easily accessible way.Optimizing The Windows Registry teaches you how to modify the Registry without damaging your critical Windows core operating system. Now you can become the power user of your dreams and safely customize menus, file settings, and subkeys; change default icons; use Microsoft's PowerToys; create and manage multiple user profiles and hardware settings; and solve common Windows problems...without fear.
The bonus CD-ROM that comes with Optimizing The Windows Registry features more than 20 utilities for editing the Windows Registry and customizing the look, feel, and functionality of Windows 95. Included on the CD-ROM are RegEdit 2.0 (for Windows NT 4.0), DumpReg 1.1, Registry Extensions 1.1, Registry Saver 2.0, Diskeeper Lite, and more.
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Fortunately, most of us don't need to fiddle with the Registry. But if it's your job, this book is the reference you'll want to have close by. The book-and-CD set provides an overview, starting from the baseline tools of the Registry that are directly accessible, like RegEdit and .INF files. Concepts and recurring features of the Registry are explained, so developers can ensure that their applications are well behaved in the many flavors of 32-bit Windows. They'll also be able to extend the functionality of the various Windows shells through proper modification of Registry files. It's a single comprehensive source of much-needed information and tools.INSIDE THE MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98 REGISTRY topics include: The basics The Registry Editor and other Registry tools Registering filename extensions Customizing the desktop, Start Menu, and Control Panel Properties Customizing Windows Explorer and shell settings Miscellaneous Registry settings Programming issues Plus 5 appendixes discussing resources, Windows NT information and advanced topics
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The Windows NT Registry is the repository for all hardware, software, and application configuration settings, and Managing the Windows NT Registry is the system administrator's guide to maintaining, monitoring, and updating the Registry database. The book addresses four main areas:- What is the Registry? Where does it live on disk? How do system services access and use it? What do you do if it's damaged or corrupted? Every NT administrator faces questions like this, often in a desperate attempt to fix something that's broken.
- What tools are available? Detailed descriptions of Regedit, RegEdt32, the System Policy Editor, and selected Resource Kit utilities explain how to edit and secure the Registry both on local and on remote computers.
- How can I access the Registry from a program? Regularly monitoring the Registry's contents is one way to preclude unpleasant surprises. Using examples in C++, Visual Basic, and Perl, Managing the WIndows NT Registry demonstrates how to create Registry-aware tools and scripts.
- What's in the Registry? Not all Registry keys are adequately documented by Microsoft or by the other vendors who store configuration data in the Registry. Managing the Windows NT Registry offers a guided tour of some of these undocumented keys; in addition, the associated Web site provides a "living database" of Registry keys that readers can search (and contribute to).
This book is a "must have" for every NT system manager or administrator.
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"Call on Admin911 to learn what's going on with your network, to understand your options, and pick the right solutions." -David Chernicoff, Windows 2000 Magazine