1. Chapter 1 A Gentle Introduction to the Registry

   1. A Brief History of the Registry

   2. What Does the Registry Do?

   3. Advantages Offered by the Registry

   4. Registry Zen

2. Chapter 2 Registry Nuts and Bolts

   1. How the Registry Is Structured

   2. What Goes in the Registry

   3. Getting Data In and Out

3. Chapter 3 In Case of Emergency

   1. Don't Panic!

   2. Safety Strategies

   3. All About Emergency Repair Disks

   4. Backing Up the Registry

   5. Restoring a Backed-up Registry

4. Chapter 4 Using RegEdit

   1. Know Your Limitations

   2. Learning the RegEdit Interface

   3. "Just Browsing, Thanks"

   4. Connecting to Other Machines' Registries

   5. Searching for Keys and Values

   6. Printing Registry Contents

   7. Working with Keys and Values

   8. Exporting and Importing Data

   9. RegEdit Command-Line Options

5. Chapter 5 Using RegEdt32

   1. How RegEdt32 and RegEdit Differ

   2. Learning the RegEdt32 Interface

   3. Browsing with RegEdt32

   4. Remote Registry Editing

   5. Searching for Keys

   6. Saving and Loading Registry Keys

   7. Printing Registry Contents

   8. Editing Keys and Values

   9. Registry Security Fundamentals

   10. Securing Registry Keys in Windows 2000

   11. Securing Registry Keys in Windows NT

6. Chapter 6 Using the System Policy Editor

   1. All About System Policies

   2. Introducing the System Policy Editor

   3. Managing Policies with POLEDIT

   4. Distributing Policies

   5. What's in the Standard Policy Templates

   6. Picking the Right Policies

7. Chapter 7 Using Group Policies

   1. What Are Group Policies?

   2. Introducing the Group Policy Snap-in

   3. Managing Policies

   4. Distributing Policies

   5. What's in the Standard Policy Templates?

8. Chapter 8 Programming with the Registry

   1. The Registry API

   2. The Shell Utility API Routines

   3. Programming with C/C++

   4. Programming with Perl

   5. Programming with Visual Basic

9. Chapter 9 Administering the Registry

   1. Setting Defaults for New User Accounts

   2. Using Initialization File Mapping

   3. Limiting Remote Registry Access

   4. Fixing Registry Security ACLs in Windows NT

   5. Adding Registry ACLs to Group Policy Objects

   6. Encrypting HKLM\SAM with SYSKEY

   7. Miscellaneous Good Stuff

   8. Using the Resource Kit Registry Utilities

   9. reg: The One-Size-Fits-All Registry Tool

   10. Spying on the Registry with RegMon

10. Chapter 10 Registry Tweaks

    1. User Interface Tweaks

    2. Filesystem Tweaks

    3. Security Tweaks

    4. Performance Tweaks

    5. Network Tweaks

    6. Printing Tweaks

11. Chapter 11 The Registry Documented

    1. What's Here and What's Not

    2. HKLM\HARDWARE

    3. HKLM\SOFTWARE

    4. HKLM\SYSTEM

    5. HKU

    6. HKCR

    7. HKCU

    8. HKCC

    9. HKDD

1. Appendix A User Configuration Group Policy Objects

   1. Administrative Templates

2. Appendix B Computer Configuration Group Policy Objects

   1. Windows Settings

   2. Administrative Templates

3. Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of Managing the Windows 2000 Registry is a female or juvenile orangutan. The word "orangutan" comes from the Malay word for "man of the woods." Ancient legend has it that orangutans have the ability to speak, but choose not to because they are afraid that if humans find out, they will put the orangutans to work.

Orangutans are native to the forests of Borneo and Sumatra. Male adults have long beards and mustaches and highly developed cheek pads and throat pouches. The throat pouches are used as resonators for mating calls and calls to mark territory. Human males have a similar throat pouch, called the "Morgagnitic pouch," but it is very small in most men. It becomes well developed in trumpet players, bass singers, and Muslim prayer callers.

These great apes are almost completely arboreal. They move by swinging from one tree branch to the next, and descend to the ground only when there is no branch to swing to, or occasionally to gather branches for building sleeping nests. Because of the orangutans' method of locomotion, their arms are very strong and long, measuring up to 7.8 feet when outspread and reaching to the ankles when standing upright. Their legs, in contrast, are relatively weak. They eat primarily fruit, but will also eat bark, leaves, flowers, and eggs. They get their drinking water by scooping it out of holes in the trees.

Orangutans mate while swinging from tree branches. Infants weigh approximately 3.5 pounds at birth. For about the first year the infant is completely dependent on its mother and clings to her by entwining its fingers in her fur. If orangutan babies are orphaned, they need to be given a substitute to cling to, and they usually display great affection for their surrogate mothers. Development in the first year is similar to that of human babies.

Other than humans, orangutans have no natural enemies. However, as a result of hunting and habitat destruction, they are in danger of becoming extinct. Mary Anne Weeks Mayo was the copyeditor and production editor for Managing the Windows 2000 Registry. Ellie Cutler proofread the book. Jeff Holcomb, Madeleine Newell, and Jane Ellin provided quality control. Mary Sheehan and Emily Quill provided production support. Bruce Tracy wrote the index.

Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

Alicia Cech and David Futato designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Mike Sierra implemented the design in FrameMaker 5.5.6. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Rhon Porter using Macromedia FreeHand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.