Customer Reviews

Windows NT Registry

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2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I've reviewed almost every book on the Windows Registry and this is finally the book I've been looking for.

The other books cover how to use RegEdit and RegEdt32 well, but they fail to give any kind of comprehensive list of registry settings. This book does. It's divided into chapters where each one covers a specific topic and all of the registry settings which apply. Very well organized.

You owe it to yourself to add this book to your collection.

Of all of the books that claim to demystify the registry, *this* book lives up to the task. It is apparently obvious that Ms. Osborne has taken the cryptic keys within the registry hives and figured out what they do (no small task at all) and how they interoperate (even more amazing).

A must read if you want to figure out what is happening "beneath the covers" on the NT platform. Buy it NOW!!

This book explains the makeup of the Windows NT Registry in great detail. It gives the reader detailed insight on how the registry can customized to work for her/him.

This book has more unknown registry settings than any other Registry Book. The first discovery of Flag settings are discussed and are invaluable when trying to program the Windows Interface or programatically controlling the control panel applets. It even shows how to create your own policies using settings in the Policy chapter. GREAT BOOK !!!

The bulk of the book is devoted to describing the Registry entries controlled by the Control Panel interfaces and other applets. Approximately 25% of the volume is a raw dump of a NT registry. If you are looking for how to enable command completion in a DOS window, or other interesting tidbits, this is not the book.

One of the few books I've ever found so useless that I've bothered to return it -- fortunately, Amazon.com makes returns quite painless.

Having read the rave reviews on amazon.com, I purchased this book hoping to find all sorts of interesting information on manipulating the registry programatically. (In particular I have an interest in user accounts and NT security in my current application.) Whilst I'm sure the book is an invaluable source of information for some (hence the two stars, not just one), I personally found that it contained little that wasn't either already obvious to the developer, or that couldn't be found elsewhere fairly easily.

For me - something to consume shelf space, and little more.

Please inform me when someone writes a decent book on the registry. This one doesn't fit the bill either. We need practical examples that are organized in a useful manner, like "Controlling the User Interface", "Network Services", "File Associations", and "Shared DLL Handling". I will be waiting with bated breath. Until then, save your money on this book.