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Preface

1. A Gentle Introduction to the Registry
A Brief History of the Registry
What Does the Registry Do?
Advantages Offered by the Registry
Registry Zen

2. Registry Nuts and Bolts
How the Registry Is Structured
What Goes in the Registry
Getting Data In and Out

3. In Case of Emergency
Don't Panic!
Safety Strategies
All About Emergency Repair Disks
Backing Up the Registry
Restoring a Backed-up Registry

4. Using RegEdit
Know Your Limitations
Learning the RegEdit Interface
"Just Browsing, Thanks"
Connecting to Other Machines' Registries
Searching for Keys and Values
Printing Registry Contents
Working with Keys and Values
Exporting and Importing Data
RegEdit Command-Line Options

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
What Are Group Policies?
Introducing the Group Policy Snap-in
Managing Policies
Distributing Policies
What's in the Standard Policy Templates?

8. Programming with the Registry
The Registry API
The Shell Utility API Routines
Programming with C/C++
Programming with Perl
Programming with Visual Basic

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 HKLM\SAM 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
Filesystem Tweaks
Security Tweaks
Performance Tweaks
Network Tweaks
Printing Tweaks

11. The Registry Documented
What's Here and What's Not
HKLM\HARDWARE
HKLM\SOFTWARE
HKLM\SYSTEM
HKU
HKCR
HKCU
HKCC
HKDD

A. User Configuration Group Policy Objects

B. Computer Configuration Group Policy Objects

Index