Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
The Windows NT Registry is the repository for all hardware, software, and application configuration settings. This is the system administrator's guide to maintaining, monitoring, and updating the Registry database. Provides complete coverage of Regedit, RegEdt32, and the System Policy Editor, plus the Resource Kit utilities.
About the Author
Paul Robichaux is an experienced consultant who specializes in Exchange. Besides a dozen or so successful books, he has written regular weekly and monthly columns on Exchange for years. Microsoft recognized Paul's knowledge and community participation when the company selected him as an Exchange Most Valuable Professional (MVP), an honor given to a few dozen product-area experts each year. Paul is a prolific author who's written successful books for O'Reilly (most notably Managing Exchange Server).
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
1. A Gentle Introduction to the NT Registry
A Brief History of the Registry
What Does the Registry Do?
Advantages Offered By the Registry
Registry Zen
2. NT Registry Nuts and Bolts
How the Registry Is Structured
What Goes in the Registry
Getting Data In and Out
3. In Case of Emergency
Don't Panic!
Safety Strategies
All About Emergency Repair Disks
Backing Up the Registry
Restoring a Backed-Up Registry
4. Using RegEdit
Know Your Limitations
Learning the RegEdit Interface
"Just Browsing, Thanks"
Connecting to Other Machines' Registries
Searching for Keys and Values
Printing Registry Contents
Working with Keys and Values
Exporting and Importing Data
RegEdit Command-Line Options
5. Using RegEdt32
How RegEdt32 and RegEdit Differ
Learning the RegEdt32 Interface
Browsing with RegEdt32
Remote Registry Editing
Searching for Keys
Saving and Loading Registry Keys
Printing Registry Contents
Editing Keys and Values
Registry Security
6. Using the System Policy Editor
All About NT Policies
Introducing the System Policy Editor
Managing Policies with POLEDIT
Distributing Policies
What's in the Standard Policy Templates
Picking the Right Policies
7. Programming with the Registry
The Registry API
Programming with C/C++
Programming with Perl
Programming with Visual Basic
8. Administering the NT Registry
Setting Defaults for New User Accounts
Using Initialization File Mapping
Limiting Remote Registry Access
Fixing Registry Security ACLs
Encrypting HKLM\SAM with SYSKEY
Miscellaneous Good Stuff
Using the Resource Kit Utilities
Spying on the Registry with NTREGMON
9. Registry Tweaks
User Interface Tweaks
Filesystem Tweaks
Security Tweaks
Performance Tweaks
Network Tweaks
Printing Tweaks
10. The Registry Documented
What's Here and What's Not
HKLM\HARDWARE
HKLM\SOFTWARE
HKLM\SYSTEM
HKU
HKCR
HKCU
HKCC
HKDD
Index