By Mike Halsey, Andrew Bettany

No matter what model of home windows you’re using--from Vista as much as home windows 8.1--the registry is on the center of your computing device event. software program installs and compatibility, operation and extra are controlled through a fancy database of codes and numbers. while anything is going fallacious it might look very unlikely to diagnose and service the matter, and more durable nonetheless to avoid a recurrence or make the sophisticated adjustments and tweaks required to mend the matter. during this ebook we’ll take you contained in the workings of the Registry, and educate you ways to fix, adjust and fresh it to maintain your computers working smoothly.

What you’ll learn

1) the right way to navigate the structure of the home windows Registry

2) tips on how to troubleshoot defective and corrupt Registry items

3) the right way to edit and paintings with the Registry documents of alternative clients on a PC

4) What instruments and utilities will help paintings with and service the Registry

5) how you can safe the registry on a home windows PC

6) What Registry tweaks and hacks could make utilizing your home windows computer a greater experience
Who this publication is for

Windows energy clients, procedure directors, support table group of workers, humans operating with home windows in a BYOD environment.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introducing the home windows Registry

Chapter objective: A deep dive into the constitution and structure of the registry, together with its varied key forms, dossier constitution and hosting.

what's the home windows Registry?
home windows Registry files
The Registry constitution in Depth
Registry Keys in Depth

Chapter 2: utilizing Registry instruments in Windows

Chapter aim: instructing humans in regards to the a number of instruments on hand to assist them paintings with the Registry in any model of Windows

home windows Regedit
ScanReg
strategy Monitor
CCleaner
extra third-party Registry tools
evaluating sooner than and after Registries

Chapter three: Troubleshooting and Corrupt Registry

Chapter target: educating the reader the way to diagnose and service matters with a corrupt registry on a PC

Troubleshooting fundamentals
discovering corruptions in the Registry

Chapter four: complicated Registry Troubleshooting

Chapter objective: instructing humans how they could practice complicated diagnostics and troubleshooting together with engaged on different people’s Registry files

modifying different users’ Registry files
complicated analysis of the home windows Registry
complex key fix and replacement

Chapter five: Securing the home windows Registry

Chapter target: educating humans find out how to make sure the registries on their desktops are secure from malware assault and direct interference

figuring out Registry protection in your PC
Securing the Registry with the home windows safeguard tools
Securing the Registry with encryption
coping with and protecting powerful password enforcement for method administrators

Chapter 6: Tweaks, Hacks and customary Registry Changes

Chapter objective: Bonus fabric to assist IT execs harness the complete strength and capability of the registry for boosting the consumer and productiveness event, whereas additionally supplying examples readers can use to perform Registry editing

universal Registry Hacks
Tweaking the Registry to enhance the computer experience
different universal Registry adjustments and why you are going to lead them to

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7. You will now see the PC listed and two new branches appear within RegEdit: one for HKLU and one for HKU. 8. Once you have reviewed or made your changes, highlight the Computer icon and select the Disconnect Network Registry option from the File menu. If you prefer to use the command line rather than the GUI tools, you can use the following commands to enable and start the Remote Registry Service, respectively: sc config remoteregistry start=demand net start remoteregistry 58 Chapter 4 ■ Working with Other Users’ Registry Files/Advanced Troubleshooting Windows PowerShell PowerShell does not natively allow the manipulation of the Registry on a remote PC.

Within an enterprise, administrators will often use Group Policy to configure, deploy, and manage applications, settings, and user preferences on PCs within the organization. exe RegEdit was introduced in Chapter 2, so we will dive straight into how to use this built-in Windows tool to connect to another Registry on a different PC. If you are testing this scenario locally, you can export a copy of your own Registry, which you can then import to work with. reg To load another Registry Hive into the current Hive, follow the steps below: 1.

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