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) |
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 startup process. |
