Managing the Windows 2000 Registry (Paperback)

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Product Description

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. The book addresses four main areas:

• What the Registry is and where it lives on disk; includes a discussion of disaster recovery
• Available tools; includes Resource Kit utilities as well as the Registry Editors
• How to access the Registry from a program; includes examples in C++, Visual Basic, and Perl
• Registry content; includes descriptions of selected undocumented keys

About the Author

Paul Robichaux is an experienced software developer and author and the principal of Robichaux and Associates, Inc. He has worked on Unix, Macintosh, and Win32 development projects over the past eight years, including a stint on Intergraph's OLE team. He is the author of Managing the Windows NT Registry and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 558 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (August 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565929438
• ISBN-13: 978-1565929432
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,526,591 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun for all levels, February 15, 2002

By	Jase T. Wolfe - See all my reviews

Regardless of your experience with the registry, this book can be of value to you. Despite the title, there are references in almost every section of the book on the Windows NT 4 registry, which can be helpful if you are working in a mixed environment or are coming from the NT 4 side of things.

The author starts the book by assuming you have no previous experience with the registry, and takes you on a 5 chapter tour, covering topics such as the history of the registry, how to navigate, what each part does, how to back it up and restore it, the different editors you can use, etc. From there, the book progresses for a couple of chapters on configuring policies - using the Policy Editor and GPO/OU policies within Windows 2000.

The author does include a surprising chapter in the middle entitled "Programming with the Registry" (Chapter 8) in which he covers many of the API calls for the registry and the Shell Utility, and then gives demos in C/C++, Perl and Visual Basic. My personal opinion is that that chapter is a little advanced for the book as a whole, but if you're not into it, it can be skipped without much loss to you.

The book also spends 2 chapters covering administration and tweaks (plus a great index section on the Group Policy Objects), and the final chapter documents what each hive in the registry does.

All in all, it's worth a read.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mostly good, March 8, 2001

By	chavruta "chavruta" (Silver Spring, MD United States) - See all my reviews

Really I would give it 4.5 stars if I could.

It's a good book, but it should be titled 'NT and 2000 registry'. It discusses both. This might be a bonus to some (who would like info on both) and a disadvantage to others (who already own stuff about NT registry). There are a few errors and some things I would change, and I wouldn't say it's as good as some other Oreilly books I've read.

There are sections just about policy settings which is good and a nice set of appendicies.