Mastering Windows XP Registry

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.

Contents

Introduction
Part I • Registry Basics
Chapter 1 • What Is a Registry and Why?
Chapter 2 • Readme.1st: Preventing Disaster!
Chapter 3 • Anatomy of the Registry: The Blood, Gore, and Guts
Chapter 4 • Registry Tools and Tips: Getting the Work Done
Chapter 5 • Policies: Good for One, Good for All
Part II • Advanced Registry Stuff
Chapter 6 • Associations, Linkages, and OLE: How Confusing Can This Get?
Chapter 7 • Why, Oh Why, Are There system.ini and win.ini Files?
Chapter 8 • Getting Rid of the Unwanted
Chapter 9 • Recovering from Disaster, or Making the Best of a Bad Situation
Chapter 10 • Programming and the Registry: A Developer's Paradise?
Chapter 11 • The Performance Monitor Meets the Registry
Part III • Windows and Office Registry Entries
Chapter 12 • The Windows XP User Interface: Changing How It Looks
Chapter 13 • Networking and Registry System Entries
Chapter 14 • Microsoft Office Entries
Part IV • The Registry Reference
Chapter 15 • Introduction to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Chapter 16 • Introduction to HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_USERS
Chapter 17 • Introduction to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Chapter 18 • Introduction to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software
Chapter 19 • Introduction to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System and HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
Part V • Appendices
Appendix A • Common Hives and Keys
Appendix B • Registry Data Types
Appendix C • Where Can I Get More Help?
Appendix D • Performance Counters
Appendix E • Plug and Play Identifiers
Appendix F • Microsoft Office CLSIDs
Index