By Ron Petrusha

What home windows ninety five builders were searching for! An in-depth exam of the home windows ninety five registry, the hot principal "storage facility" for settings that replaces lots of the previous SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI settings present in home windows 3.x.This publication covers distant registry entry, variations among the Win95 and NT registries, and registry backup. you are going to additionally discover a thorough exam of the position that the registry performs in OLE, insurance of undocumented registry prone, and extra. Petrusha indicates programmers how to entry the Win95 registry from Win32, Win16, and DOS courses in C and visible easy. VxD pattern code can also be included.The e-book contains a diskette with registry instruments comparable to REGSPY, a application that exhibits precisely how home windows purposes, libraries, and drivers use settings within the registry.

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Alex Shmidt, the developer of FootPrnt and RegSpy95, wrote a portion of the chapter on spying on the registry, responded with amazing competence and speed while we were testing his software, and was a real pleasure to work with. Dan Appleman, Stjepan Pejic, and Roan Bear of Desaware provided the Desaware Registry Control for the book, responded to my many questions about its operation, and reviewed several chapters of the book. Matt Pietrek of Nu-Mega Technologies graciously allowed us to include his spying utility, APISpy32, in the book.

DAT that Win95 may use in constructing the registry on a particular machine. Besides fragmenting its data and storing it in a special format, the two permanent registry files are also stored as hidden, read-only system files, thus making their examination, modification, or accidental deletion by inexperienced users much more difficult. Why, one might ask, did Microsoft go to such pains to "hide" the basic details of a system's configuration from its users? The answer lies in the central role of the registry in the operation of Win95: the registry contains virtually every item of data that Windows needs to start and run the system, rather than just information for such special-purpose operations as associating files, supporting drag-and-drop, or handling object linking and embedding.

In contrast, you don't have to be particularly concerned that writes to the registry will fail because the registry has become too large; it has no practical size limitation, as long as free disk space is available. Page 16 Flexibility and ease of data handling.

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