Synopses & Reviews
"The Registry book of choice for power users." PC Magazine Extensive list of Registry error messages included! Caution: Using the Registry Editor can cause serious improvements! For all of Microsoft's warnings about editing the Registry, it remains the most powerful, the most versatile and often, the only way to troubleshoot and customize your Windows PC. Try it! With the expert advice of Registry guru John Woram, you'll quickly gain the know-how you need to navigate the maze of HKEYs, subkeys, and data strings with complete confidence. Clearly organized and well illustrated, The Windows
® 98 Registry takes the mystery out of the Registry, giving you a clear, detailed roadmap and straight-forward directions.
- Get a full roadmap of the six HKEYs
- Find and edit Registry keys with RegEdit
- Remove Registry "leftovers"
- Edit the Registry safely
- Customize and optimize Windows 98 and Windows 95
- Troubleshoot and repair a corrupted Registry
- Survive configuration disasters
- Use TweakUI to watch the Registry in action
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Synopsis
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.
About the Author
About the Author John Woram is Consulting Editor for Windows Magazine, where he writes the monthly "Optimize Windows" column. He is the author of the extremely successful PC Configuration Handbook, which has sold over 250,000 copies and has been translated into six foreign languages. His previous book, The Windows® 95 Registry, was a finalist for the 1996 Computer Press Association's "How-To Book" award.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
PART I: Structure.
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Windows Registry.
Chapter 2: The Registry Structure, Section I.
Chapter 3: The Registry Structure, Section II.
Chapter 5: Registry Maintenance.
PART III: Customization.
Chapter 6: Custom Registry Editing Techniques.
Part IV: Troubleshooting.
Chapter 7: Troubleshooting Techniques.
Chapter 8: Registry Error Messages.
Appendix: Tweak UI and the Registry.
Index.