Microsoft Windows Registry Books

Microsoft Windows Registry Guide, Second Edition (Pro One Offs)

Jerry Honeycutt

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Get the in-depth information you need to modify—and seamlessly manage—the Windows registry. Written for IT professionals and power users, this vital resource reveals little-known registry techniques, tricks, tips, and secrets to make your job easier. Understand the inner workings of the Windows operating system—and use the registry to get Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP to run the way you want, on a single desktop or across the network. You’ll learn how to pinpoint registry settings and script registry changes, deal with registry permissions, use Windows Installer, and map Tweak UI settings. Also, find best practices for how to back up, restore, and maintain registry settings with confidence. The CD includes 100+ registry files for customizing operating system appearance and behavior, and the complete eBook. You’ll learn how to:

- Apply best practices to back up, restore, manage, and modify the registry

- Customize group and system policies to manage multiple PCs and users remotely

- Track down registry settings and script changes

- Optimize server services, including network connections and authentication

- Deploy user profiles and Microsoft Office program settings

- Configure security services, including Windows Firewall, templates, and service pack features

- Troubleshoot the registry—resolving common problems and corruption issues

Mastering Windows XP Registry

Peter D. Hipson, Peter Hipson

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Expert Advice for Windows XP Power Users

Created for Windows power users and anyone who aspires to be one, Mastering Windows XP Registry provides focused, practical coverage of Windows' most important--and most challenging--element: the registry. Inside, you'll learn to customize Windows XP, optimize the network, and avoid scores of potential disasters, all by working with registry settings. If you're a power user, a system administrator, programmer, or consultant, this guide is absolutely essential.

Coverage includes:
* Understanding registry keys and data types
* Applying the secrets of the most important registry keys
* Adjusting the Windows GUI through registry settings
* Using the registry in networking
* Optimizing performance by editing registry settings
* Working with registry tools
* Recovering from disasters
* Eliminating unwanted keys, entries, applications, and files
* Taking advantage of the registry in your own programs
* Tracking registry changes made by applications
* Navigating registry entries

Microsoft Windows XP Registry Guide (Bpg-Other)

Jerry Honeycutt

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This title for power users and IT professionals is the authoritative source for information on the Windows XP registry and how to modify it to suit your administrative and personal needs. The Windows registry contains profiles for each user of a computer plus information about system hardware, installed programs, property settings, and more. Modifying the Windows registry gives users the utmost control over the PC, but it's been somewhat of a dangerous black art -- until now. This title is the complete reference to working with the Windows XP registry -- including everything from registry hacks for power users to management and deployment guidance for IT professionals. The book includes troubleshooting hints, common workarounds, and a guide to how to use the new registry editor. Written by a recognized expert -- the author of six books on the Windows registry -- this book is the authoritative resource for readers who want or need to work with the Windows registry. Highlights include chapters on pinpointing registry settings and scripting registry changes, dealing with registry permissions, using Windows Installer, and mapping Tweak UI settings to actual registry values.

Windows 2000 Registry for Dummies

Glenn E. Weadock

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The Registry hasn't gone away. It's more important than ever--and every bit as cryptic as before--in Windows 2000. Windows 2000 Registry for Dummies explains what the Registry is used for, how it works, and how you (a power user with an interest in optimizing the appearance and performance of your PC) can perform surgery on it. Throughout this book, the emphasis is on exploration and experimentation with the greatest possible degree of safety, so you're given full information on backing up the Registry before the authors show you how to start paring away at its branches and leaves.

You'll find lots of conceptual information, including a neat explanation of the Registry's logical structure and the files that hold it. But the best part of Weadock's work may be his little how-to items, such as the one that explains how to sort the items in the Start menu alphabetically and the one that automatically clears lists of recently used documents (and recently visited Web sites). Sometimes he opts for a Registry solution when a non-Registry approach exists (as in the case of getting My Computer to open in Explorer view), but that's not a problem. Overall, you'll be pleased with Weadock's approach to a Windows 2000 detail that wasn't really meant for human eyes. --David Wall

Topics covered: The purpose and operation of the Registry in Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server, making Registry backups and restoring the Registry from them, using Registry editors (regedit.exe and regedt32.exe, especially), organizational structure, user profiles, handy tricks and customizations, and the Registry's networking effects.

Windows 2000 Registry Little Black Book, 2nd Ed.

Nathan Wallace, Anthony Sequeira

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A cookbook of hacks you can make to the Registries of the various Windows 2000 operating systems, Windows 2000 Registry Little Black Book will help Windows 2000 administrators make their machines behave the way they want. It'll also help them get a better understanding of how Windows 2000 works, and more than likely introduce them to capabilities of the operating system that aren't well publicized in standard documentation.

Like all books in the Black Book series, the chapters in Windows 2000 Registry Little Black Book (each of which has to do with a functional area, like TCP/IP networking or the graphical user interface) are divided into "In Brief" and "Immediate Solutions" sections. "In Brief" is meant to explain the concepts that underlie the recipes and procedures that appear in the "Immediate Solutions" section, but for this subject the section seems to have been included as a formality--it's miniscule in most chapters and serves only to introduce some terms (terms you should be familiar with if you're considering hacking the Registry). "Immediate Solutions" sections are good, though wordy: every last Registry change is documented with a procedure that begins, "Launch Regedt32." This book could be a third of its present size if this padding were cut. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to change the values of Windows 2000 Registry keys to bring about particular behaviors, such as changing authentication timeouts and changing the way Windows reacts to a service's failure to start; Registry hacks for networking; the graphical user interface; multimedia; hardware; and Internet Information Server (IIS).

Windows Server 2003 Registry

Olga Kokoreva

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A thorough introduction to the optimization and customization of Windows .NET describes what the Registry is and its latest features and discusses such topics as the use of Registry features, security issues, Windows File Protection, Plug and Play implementation, device management support, power man

Radiography Study Guide and Registry Review (With Diskette for Windows)

Ruth S. Widmer, Kenneth W. Van Soelen

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several inconsistancies 2 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I too, like a previous reviewer, noticed several errors in the self testing section of this book. Luckily I knew the correct answers and could spot them.

Not Worth the Money 1 out of 5 stars.
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The layout of the book may be appealing, and the graphics & charts too, but the contents are the reason I bought this book. I found many inconsistancies in the review question section where the answer key completely contradicts the text of the book. I also came across similar mistakes on the diskette. I am disappointed in the WB Saunders Company that they can publish a book of such importance which is unreliable and therefore useless.

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Here's the ideal preparatory tool for the ARRT registry exam. Comprised of a study guide section which provides an easy-to-follow outline of every topic found in the registry exam, an extensive question and answer section which reinforces strengths and identifies weaknesses, and two 200 question "mock registry exams" with rationales. Features helpful post-tests at the end of each chapter with over 900 questions and over 150 illustrations including line drawings, charts, graphs, and radiographs. Includes free software featuring 800 test questions.

Windows XP Registry: A Complete Guide to Customizing and Optimizing Windows XP (Information Technologies Master Series)

Olga Kokoreva

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Targeting IT professionals, system administrators, and experienced users moving to the Windows XP platform, this book enables the user to master registry concepts and architecture, provides a historical overview of the registry, and outlines the differences between Windows 9x/ME and Windows NT/2000/XP registries. Special attention is drawn to the enhancements in registry architecture introduced with Windows XP, such as faster queries and removal of the registry size limitation. Covered in depth are how to properly use registry features, how to plan and implement the most appropriate registry backup strategy, and how to monitor and modify the system registry according to the administrative requirements and individual needs of the users.

Inside the Microsoft Windows 98 Registry (Mps)

Guenther Born

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Fortunately, most of us don't need to fiddle with the Registry. But if it's your job, this book is the reference you'll want to have close by. The book-and-CD set provides an overview, starting from the baseline tools of the Registry that are directly accessible, like RegEdit and .INF files. Concepts and recurring features of the Registry are explained, so developers can ensure that their applications are well behaved in the many flavors of 32-bit Windows. They'll also be able to extend the functionality of the various Windows shells through proper modification of Registry files. It's a single comprehensive source of much-needed information and tools.

INSIDE THE MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98 REGISTRY topics include: The basics The Registry Editor and other Registry tools Registering filename extensions Customizing the desktop, Start Menu, and Control Panel Properties Customizing Windows Explorer and shell settings Miscellaneous Registry settings Programming issues Plus 5 appendixes discussing resources, Windows NT information and advanced topics

Windows 98 Registry Handbook

Jerry Honeycutt

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Windows 98 can't bang two rocks together without consulting the Registry, and Windows 98 Registry Handbook documents the Registry very well. If you suspect there's a way to accomplish something in Windows 98, take a look at this book. In addition to providing information about the Registry itself, the book features lengthy discussions about software tools for working with the Registry, especially by using Norton Registry Editor, TweakUI, and the standard Microsoft editor.

Author Jerry Honeycutt carefully documents the contents of the Registry. He explains what each of the Registry's six hives contains, digging down through the subsidiary branches to provide lists of hundreds of entries. His commentary is sharp too--he explains what many of the entries mean and details how to modify them to achieve various results.

Windows 98 Registry Handbook also provides a collection of Registry recipes. Honeycutt reveals how to modify the order in which the contents of the Start menu appear. He tells how to disable the Run and Find commands in the Start menu too--a real attraction for corporate administrators. Honeycutt also reveals how you can make Windows 98 automatically flush its list of recently-used documents each time it starts up. He even shows enterprising users how to get around the roadblocks that crop up when a system administrator has tried to make it difficult to edit the Registry. The list goes on. --David Wall