Troubleshooting and Configuring the Windows Nt/95 Registry (Paperback)

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Troubleshooting and Configuring the Windows NT/95 Registry offers practical solutions, tips, and warnings. Learn them and you'll be able to use the registry to control the Windows operating system, its security features, networking, installed 32-bit applications, device drivers, and users. This tutorial will help you understand the registry's structure and underlying concepts. While some of the information will be relevant for end users, this book is fundamentally geared toward systems administrators.

The initial chapters provide a substantial introduction to the structure of the registry and teach you how to protect it, recover from failure, make changes to it using the Regedit32 editor, and even perform edits remotely. The next sections explain how to use the registry for hardware control, networking configuration, user administration, and domain server management and detail how to manage Windows 95 users with the System Policy Editor. A final section covers third-party registry tools and extensively documents the registry keys.

The author covers both the Windows 95 and NT registries but, because of their many differences, discusses them in separate sections. This approach makes sense for administrators who will probably need to work with both types of operating systems. If you're trying to master the registry, the core system-configuration database in Windows NT and Windows 95, you'll appreciate this book's clear writing and technical depth.

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Want to improve performance of your Windows NT or Windows 95 system? The key is through the Registry! Troubleshooting and Configuring the Windows NT/95 Registry is your guide to maximizing the power and performance of your NT/95 system or network. This book presents solutions in a question-and-answer format that will guide you through some of the more difficult configuration issues of your system, as well as provide complete coverage of the Registry. Whether you're in charge of an entire network or simply want to tweak your home machine, Troubleshooting and Configuring the Windows NT/95 Registry puts you in control.

• Includes detailed coverage of registry entries for both systems, noting instances when the entries differ
• Offers complete troubleshooting sections outlining known problems and detailing their solutions
• CD-ROM contains registry entries and third party utilities relating to the Registry for both Windows 95 and NT

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Product Details

• Paperback: 648 pages
• Publisher: Sams (May 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067231066X
• ISBN-13: 978-0672310669
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,313,612 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Troubleshooting and Configuring the Windows NT/95 Registry, April 25, 2000

By	"adrielc77" (Argentina) - See all my reviews

Is the best book of the Windows Registry, whit examples, programs and utilities.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for beginners and non-technical people, February 23, 1998

By A Customer

This book does a pretty good job of "questions & answers" for people interested in "tweaking" Windows 95 or NT. It covers a wide range of common registry entries. But it lacks any kind of comprehensive reference to the registry. Also several of the utilities on the CDROM don't work in Windows NT (although it says they do) and several which are listed in the book are not present on the CD. If you don't have any other registry books, I wouldn't start with this one, but it's certainly a valuable addition to my existing collection.