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By Paul Robichaux
August 2000
Pages: 556
ISBN 10: 1-56592-943-8 |
ISBN 13: 9781565929432
(Average of 2 Customer Reviews)
The Windows 2000 Registry is the repository for all hardware, software, and application configuration settings. Managing the Windows 2000 Registry is the system administrator's guide to maintaining, monitoring, and updating the Registry database. A "must-have" for every 2000 system manager or administrator, it covers what the Registry is and where it lives on disk, available tools, Registry access from programs, and Registry content.
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- What is the Registry? Where does it live on disk? How do system services access and use it? What do you do if it's damaged or corrupted? Every 2000 administrator faces questions like this, often in a desperate attempt to fix something that's broken.
- What tools are available? Detailed descriptions of Regedit, RegEdt32, the System Policy Editor, Group Policy Editor and selected Resource Kit utilities explain how to edit and secure the Registry both on local and on remote computers.
- How can I access the Registry from a program? Regularly monitoring the Registry's contents is one way to preclude unpleasant surprises. Using examples in C++, Visual Basic, and Perl, Managing the Windows 2000 Registry demonstrates how to create Registry-aware tools and scripts.
- What's in the Registry? Not all Registry keys are adequately documented by Microsoft or by the other vendors who store configuration data in the Registry. Managing the Windows 2000 Registry offers a guided tour of some of these undocumented keys.
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First Edition: August 2000
ISBN: 1-56592-943-8
Pages: 556
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 2 Reviews)
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Managing the Windows 2000 Registry Review, June 12 2001
The class of the book is beyond compare. It has some of the more precise explanations of the Windows Registry when compared to MSDN documentation.
An absolute essential for anyone who wants to understand Windows NT.
Managing the Windows 2000 Registry Review, April 12 2001
Managing the Windows 2000 Registry provides you with all you need to understand and work with the registry, whether as a user, programmer, or administrator.
Paul Robichaux, the author, wrote the Windows NT Registry book for O'Reilly, and works as a
systems analyst for an NT shop (but he writes his books on Macs), so he knows his way
around the registry. And Windows being what it is, you learn and master your knowledge
gradually. Robichaux learned only while working on this edition of the book where the term
hives comes from (the registry terms in order are root keys, subkeys, values, hives, and links).
The registry is built using a b-tree database, and bees build hives.
Chapter 1 gives you an introduction to the registry, and traces its history from ini files to the
first registry database in Windows 3.1 to the monster that is the Windows 2000 registry.
How the registry is structured and how to work with it at a basic level is the subject of Chapter
2. Chapter 3 describes how to work with the registry in an emergency - backing up and
restoring either the whole registry or critical parts.
Chapter 4 describes how to use RegEdit to edit the registry, and chapter 5 describes how to
use RegEdt32. RegEdt32 is the more powerful of the two registry editors, giving you access to
security and permission settings for the registry, which RegEdit does not.
Chapters 6 and 7 explain how user and group policies work and how to use them to their full
advantage.
Programming the registry using C++, Visual Basic (or Delphi), or Perl is the topic of Chapter 8.
Some of the registry functions don't work the same way across all versions of Windows.
Although they have the same names they do different things. These features are described
briefly, but not fully documented as Microsoft has done so in both the MSDN and the Win32
SDK.
Chapter 9 describes how to administer the registry, and Chapter 10 describes some of the
registry tweaks you can make to improve performance or usability.
While Chapter 11 is titled 'The Registry Documented' it isn't a complete item by item
reference. Instead, the author has documented only the core parts of the registry specific to
the operating system itself, and only the more interesting or noteworthy registry items. The
reason given is that non-core parts of the registry undergo change too often to be properly
documented, and others are too obscure to be of interest to any but a tiny handful of users.
Appendix A documents the policy settings that already exist (Chapter 7 described how to
create, change, and distribute policies, not which policies already exist and what they do).
Appendix B does the same thing for group policies.
Again, the Managing the Windows 2000 Registry seems to be an authoritative and
trustworthy guide to the Windows 2000 registry. As a power user, programmer, or administrator, you'll be well served by the book.
Media reviews
"If you would like to become an expert, I recommend 'Managing the Windows 2000 Registry' by Paul Robichaux."
--Kirk Kirksey, Computeredge, Jan 10, 2003
"The Registry is to most an unassailable complexity. Managing the Windows 2000 Registry, designed for the Windows 2000 single user and the administrator alike, dissolves much of the complexity, clearly outlining its structure, efficient use and the rationale behind the Registry. Of immediate use are tips and methods that stabilise Windows 2000 by securing the Registry, including how to back it up, restore it safely and handle various crises that will inevitably occur." --Wilf Hey, amazon.co.uk
"To the rescue comes author Robichaux's well-reasoned, thorough approach to learning what is necessary to shore up one's confidence when needing to make edits in the Registry. If you know how to safely handle the Registry, then you can do much more work with it than if you were merely fumbling around or guessing.This marvelous book teaches you how to carefully use the Registry, and how to administer, back up, and recover Registry data on computers running Windows 2000, both at the desktop as well as over the network." --Dale Ferris, Golden Triangle PC Club, May 2001
"Does the thought of changing the Windows Registry give you hives? It does many network admins and developers although it's a critical piece of both the operating system and applications. Managing the Windows 2000 Registry from O'Reilly & Associates is here to be your guide into the Registry underworld. Microsoft has generated a lot of hype around Active Directory and many administrators have made it their primary focus. Sooner or later, they'll have to spend some time working with the registry and this is the book they should reach for. It's a solid, well organized guide will all of the right details." --Paul G. Brown, MCP Magazine April 2001
Managing the Windows 2000 Registry provides you with all you need to understand and work with the registry, whether as a user, programmer, or administrator...an authoritative and trustworthy guide to the Windows 2000 registry. As a power user, programmer, or administrator, you'll be well served by the book." --http://www.frogware.com/
"Does working in the Windows Registry scare you? Or worse, does knowing that computer users may sometimes fool around in the Registry scare you even more? Practically all network administrators have experienced the horrendous results of damage to the Registry, either inadvertently caused by themselves, or more likely, bumbling workstation users. To the rescue comes author Robichaux's well-reasoned, thorough approach to learning what is necessary to shore up one's confidence when needing to make edits in the Registry. This marvelous book teaches you how to carefully use the Registry, and how to administer, back up, and recover Registry data on computers running Windows 2000, both at the desktop as well as over the network. The O'Reilly publishing firm, famous for their emphasis on a common-sense approach to explaining very technical material, depth of detail, and focus on the practical, has released an invaluable tool for Information Systems support professional, especially those inclined to actively work in the Registry as a means of controlling and enhancing the Windows environment. In keeping with their long established reputation, with this release, O'Reilly once again delivers a meticulously researched, unbiased work on the Windows 2000 Registry, that arrives on the market as the migration to Windows 2000 slowly begins to expand. For the demanding technical professional, this work will provide them with answers to their complex questions about the Registry." --Dale Farri, Golden Triangle PC Club, Oct. 2000
