Mastering Windows XP Registry [Paperback]

Peter D. Hipson (Author), Peter Hipson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0782129870 | ISBN-13: 978-0782129878 | Publication Date: May 15, 2002 | Edition: 1st

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

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From the Back Cover

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

About the Author

Peter D. Hipson is an author, consultant, and teacher. When not writing computer books, he can often be found teaching computer science at the local college, where he says he “ruins the lives of hundreds of unsuspecting college students every year.”

Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1st edition (May 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782129870
• ISBN-13: 978-0782129878
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #675,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's... OK, March 18, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Mastering Windows XP Registry (Paperback)

This book is an alright registry book. Unfortunatly it doesn't really get into actually editing registry entrys until late in the book. This book might be OK for users new to messing with the registry but if you have been doing it for a while and want to more advanced stuff with the registry I'd look elsewhere. I will say though, it has a trick for showing your computer on a network as multiple computers, that's kinda cool.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mastering Windows XP Registry, January 28, 2011

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This review is from: Mastering Windows XP Registry (Paperback)

A great book for those intrested in a better understanding of the registry and as a reference for basic registry entries and concepts.

2 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good reference for the XP registry., September 20, 2005

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This review is from: Mastering Windows XP Registry (Paperback)

Very nice reference to check out entries in the XP registry.