- 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
This book uses the following typographic conventions:
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Constantwidth Indicates a language construct such as a data type, a data structure, or a code example.
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onstantwidthitalic In syntax statements, indicates placeholder elements for which the user must provide actual parameters.
- Italic
Indicates filenames, URLs, commands, variable names, utilities, and function names. Italic is also used to highlight the first mention of key terms.
Registry pathnames can get long and unwieldy. To save space, they are set in roman text, and the top-level keys are abbreviated as follows:
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HKCR |
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT |
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HKCU |
HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
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HKLM |
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
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HKU |
HKEY_USERS |
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HKCC |
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG |
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HKDD |
HKEY_DYN_DATA |
This icon marks text describing NT4-specific features that still have relevance in a a Windows 2000 context
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