Managing Windows 2000 Registry

by Robichaux, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781565929432
• ISBN10: 1565929438
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

The Windows 2000 Registry is the repository for all hardware, software, and application configuration settings. Managing the Windows 2000 Registry is the system administrator's guide to maintaining, monitoring, and updating the Registry database. A "must-have" for every 2000 system manager or administrator, it covers what the Registry is and where it lives on disk, available tools, Registry access from programs, and Registry content.

Author Biography

Paul Robichaux is an experienced software deveoper and author. He's worked on UNIX, Macintosh, and Win32 development projects over the past six years, including a stint on Intergraph's OLE team. He is the author of the Windows NT Server 4 Administrator's Guide.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
A Gentle Introduction to the Registry	1	(21)
A Brief History of the Registry	1	(9)
What Does the Registry Do?	10	(7)
Advantages Offered by the Registry	17	(3)
Registry Zen	20	(2)
Registry Nuts and Bolts	22	(34)
How the Registry Is Structured	22	(22)
What Goes in the Registry	44	(10)
Getting Data In and Out	54	(2)
In Case of Emergency	56	(34)
Don't Panic!	56	(1)
Safety Strategies	57	(4)
All About Emergency Repair Disks	61	(10)
Backing Up the Registry	71	(12)
Restoring a Backed-up Registry	83	(7)
Using RegEdit	90	(24)
Know Your Limitations	90	(1)
Learning the RegEdit Interface	91	(2)
``Just Browsing, Thanks''	93	(2)
Connecting to Other Machines' Registries	95	(1)
Searching for Keys and Values	96	(2)
Printing Registry Contents	98	(1)
Working with Keys and Values	98	(8)
Exporting and Importing Data	106	(6)
RegEdit Command-Line Options	112	(2)
Using RegEdt32	114	(37)
How RegEdt32 and RegEdit Differ	114	(1)
Learning the RegEdt32 Interface	115	(4)
Browsing with RegEdt32	119	(2)
Remote Registry Editing	121	(2)
Searching for Keys	123	(1)
Saving and Loading Registry Keys	124	(3)
Printing Registry Contents	127	(1)
Editing Keys and Values	127	(7)
Registry Security Fundamentals	134	(2)
Securing Registry Keys in Windows 2000	136	(7)
Securing Registry Keys in Windows NT	143	(8)
Using the System Policy Editor	151	(35)
All About System Policies	151	(7)
Introducing the System Policy Editor	158	(1)
Managing Policies with POLEDIT	159	(9)
Distributing Policies	168	(5)
What's in the Standard Policy Templates	173	(11)
Picking the Right Policies	184	(2)
Using Group Policies	186	(24)
What Are Group Policies?	186	(7)
Introducing the Group Policy Snap-in	193	(5)
Managing Policies	198	(5)
Distributing Policies	203	(5)
What's in the Standard Policy Templates?	208	(2)
Programming with the Registry	210	(86)
The Registry API	210	(37)
The Shell Utility API Routines	247	(17)
Programming with C/C++	264	(8)
Programming with Perl	272	(12)
Programming with Visual Basic	284	(12)
Administering the Registry	296	(55)
Setting Defaults for New User Accounts	296	(4)
Using Initialization File Mapping	300	(3)
Limiting Remote Registry Access	303	(4)
Fixing Registry Security ACLs in Windows NT	307	(4)
Adding Registry ACLs to Group Policy Objects	311	(2)
Encrypting HKLM/SAM with SYSKEY	313	(9)
Miscellaneous Good Stuff	322	(4)
Using the Resource Kit Registry Utilities	326	(2)
reg: The One-Size-Fits-All Registry Tool	328	(17)
Spying on the Registry with RegMon	345	(6)
Registry Tweaks	351	(26)
User Interface Tweaks	352	(4)
Filesystem Tweaks	356	(2)
Security Tweaks	358	(6)
Performance Tweaks	364	(8)
Network Tweaks	372	(2)
Printing Tweaks	374	(3)
The Registry Documented	377	(48)
What's Here and What's Not	377	(1)
HKLM/Hardware	378	(1)
HKLM/Software	379	(9)
HKLM/System	388	(23)
HKU	411	(1)
HKCR	412	(2)
HKCU	414	(10)
HKCC	424	(1)
HKDD	424	(1)
A. User Configuration Group Policy Objects	425	(46)
B. Computer Configuration Group Policy Objects	471	(34)
Index	505