Administering
The NT Registry
Chapter 8, Managing the Windows NT Registry, published by O'Reilly & Associates. When you're responsible for
administering computers-whether one or many-you quickly find that much of what you do on a daily basis is miscellaneous. You create
new accounts, remove old ones, figure out why your backup tape drive is dead, and so forth.
BOTOOL
L0pht Heavy Industries' BOTOOL plug in for Back Orifice 2000 gives you a GUI-based interface for file and Registry management control.
Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (Nov 1999)
Care and Feeding of the Registry ©
To safely edit your Windows NT Registry, you must know how the Registry is organized, how to back up and restore system files, and how basic editing works. By
Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (Dec 1996)
Enhance Security Through Registry Permissions
You can restrict users' permissions to Registry keys as much as you restrict users' permissions to files and directories. Here's how!
Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (June 1999)
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Foil Attacks on Your Registry
The NT Registry is the Achilles' heel of your system's security. Here are three common hacker's goals and some tips about safeguarding your server's Registry.
Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (July 1997)
How NT Protects Its Hives
Windows NT has some built-in methods for protecting system hive files.
Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (Dec 1996)
HOW TO: Backup, Edit, and Restore the Registry in Windows 2000
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 322755 - This step-by-step
article describes how to back up, edit, and restore the registry
in Windows 2000. Microsoft recommends that before you edit the
registry, you back up the registry and understand how to restore
it if a problem occurs.
How to Maintain Current Registry Backups in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 318149 - The solution that
is described in this article is not supported by Microsoft. Use
this method at your own risk.
HOW TO: Use Group Policy to Audit Registry Keys
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 315416 - This article describes how to use Group Policy to configure auditing of Windows registry
keys.
HOW TO: Use the Registry Size Estimator Tool
(Dureg.exe)
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 317382 - This step-by-step article describes how to use the Registry Size Estimator tool (Dureg.exe) to determine the size of the registry on a Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer. Dureg.exe is included in the Microsoft Windows 2000 Resource Kit,
and is also available for download from here
How to Use Regini.exe to Set Permissions on Registry Keys
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 237607 -
This article describes how to use the Regini.exe tool in the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit to modify registry permissions from within a script.
NT 4.0's Registry Hives
A table that lists the standard NT 4.0 Registry hives and their corresponding support files.
Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (Dec 1996)
Registry
Maintenance
Sample Chapter 2 from Osborne's Admin 911: Windows 2000 Registry. If your registry becomes corrupt, confused,
or misguided, it affects the health of your computer and your software, and it hinders your ability to get any work done.
Sometimes a sick registry is the result of user action, caused by somebody mucking around without the proper respect for the
delicacy of the registry. Just as often, registry problems occur as a result of software installation procedures, hardware
configuration, or general system configuration changes. If you plan registry maintenance properly, and execute that plan
regularly, you can rescue your computer from the clutches of a registry that no longer works properly. That's what this chapter
is about.
Registry Tweaks to Tune Your Network
Change Registry values to maximize the efficiency of the NT Browser service and your domain controllers' synchronization process.
Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (May 1999)
Remote Access to the Windows NT Registry
Source: MS Press Resource Link
Selecting audit events for Windows NT 4.0 registry keys
Source: CERT
Set Sail For Uncharted NT Performance
This treasure chest of Registry gems lets you explore a major contributing factor to an NT system's overall performance: the disk subsystem.
Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (Sept 1997)
The Regback Profile Quirk.
Learn a method to handle this quirky resource kit utility. By Sean Daily
Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (Nov 1999) (Subscribers Only)
Uncovering New Settings in the Registry
Enable full SAM database synchronization when NT starts, control logon parameters, and resolve networking issues.
Source: Windows & .NET Magazine (March 1998)
Registry Tweaks
Sample Chapter 9, Managing the Windows NT Registry, published by O'Reilly & Associates. this chapter contains a list of
Registry settings you can use to change the way your computer behaves.
Windows
NT Workstation Registry Keys
This appendix, from Windows NT Registry: A Settings Reference,
contains a complete listing of the Windows NT Workstation Registry
keys, except for the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key
Getting
Rid of the Unwanted
Sample Chapter 8 from Mastering Windows 2000 Registry,
published by Sybex, Inc.
System
and Startup Settings
Sample Chapter 6 from Windows 2000 Registry, published by Prentice
Hall, PTR. The Registry has much to do with the successful startup of Windows 2000. Once Windows 2000 starts, there are a
number of settings you can modify in the Registry to control how the core operating system works, as well as to customize the
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