- Managing the Windows 2000 Registry
- Preface
- 1. A Gentle Introduction to the Registry
- 2. Registry Nuts and Bolts
- 3. In Case of Emergency
- 4. Using RegEdit
- 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 Fundamentals
- Securing Registry Keys in Windows 2000
- Securing Registry Keys in Windows NT
- 6. Using the System Policy Editor
- All About System Policies
- Introducing the System Policy Editor
- Managing Policies with POLEDIT
- Distributing Policies
- What’s in the Standard Policy Templates
- Picking the Right Policies
- 7. Using Group Policies
- 8. Programming with the Registry
- The Registry API
- API Concepts and Conventions
- Opening and Closing Keys
- Creating Keys
- Getting Information About Keys
- Enumerating Keys and Values
- Getting Registry Data
- Adding and Modifying Values
- Deleting Keys and Values
- Using Registry Security Information
- Connecting to Remote Computers
- Moving Keys to and from Hives
- Getting Notification When Something Changes
- Flushing Registry Changes
- The Shell Utility API Routines
- Programming with C/C++
- Programming with Perl
- Programming with Visual Basic
- The Registry API
- 9. Administering the Registry
- Setting Defaults for New User Accounts
- Using Initialization File Mapping
- Limiting Remote Registry Access
- Fixing Registry Security ACLs in Windows NT
- Adding Registry ACLs to Group Policy Objects
- Encrypting HKLMSAM with SYSKEY
- Miscellaneous Good Stuff
- Using the Resource Kit Registry Utilities
- reg: The One-Size-Fits-All Registry Tool
- Spying on the Registry with RegMon
- 10. Registry Tweaks
- User Interface Tweaks
- Add Your Own “Tip of the Day”
- Disable Window Animations
- Speed Up the Taskbar
- Enable Tab for Filename Completion
- Run a Different Screen Saver While Waiting for a Logon
- Enable X Window-Style “Auto Raise”
- Enable “Snap to Default Button”
- Suppress Error Messages During Boot and Logon
- Set NUMLOCK Key During Startup
- Display Version Number
- Filesystem Tweaks
- Security Tweaks
- Clear the System Pagefile at Shutdown
- Prevent Caching of Logon Credentials
- Turn Off “Save Password” Option in Dial-Up Networking
- Prevent Users from Changing Network Drive Mappings
- Control Who Can See Performance Monitor Data
- Control Which Drives Are Visible Throughout the System
- Change When the Password Expiration Warning Appears
- Allow Members of the Printer Operators Group to Add Printers
- Set the Number of Authentication Retries for Dial-Up Connections
- Keep Users from Changing Video Resolutions
- Set the Authentication Timeout for Dial-Up Connections
- Keep Remote Users from Sharing a Mounted CD-ROM or Floppy
- Keep Users from Customizing “My Computer”
- Performance Tweaks
- Automatically Delete Cached User Profiles
- Enable Automatic Reboot After a Crash
- Record Evidence of a Crash
- Enabling Automatic Logon After Boot
- Power Off at Shutdown
- Force Hung Tasks to End When Logging Off
- Set a Time Limit for Shutting Down Tasks
- Speed Up System Shutdowns
- Automatically Try to Detect Slow Network Connections
- Don’t Automatically Create 8.3 Names on NTFS Volumes
- Disable the Printer Browse Thread
- Forcibly Recover a Crashed PDC
- Hiding Servers from Network Computers
- Network Tweaks
- Create a Shared Favorites Folder for All Network Users
- Automatically Use Dial-Up Networking to Log On
- Enable the WINS Proxy Agent
- Set the Number of Rings for Answering Incoming Dial-Up Networking Calls
- Turn On Logging for Dial-Up Networking
- Keep a Dial-Up Networking Connection up After You Log Out
- Set the Dial-Up Networking Automatic Disconnect Timer
- Printing Tweaks
- User Interface Tweaks
- 11. The Registry Documented
- A. User Configuration Group Policy Objects
- B. Computer Configuration Group Policy Objects
- Index
- Colophon
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