



Table of Contents Microsoft Windows XP Registry Guide.1 Introduction.4 This Book Is Different-Really.4 Power Users First Then IT Professionals.5 Some Terminology.6 Gotta Love Windows XP.7 Final Note.7 Part I: Registry Overview.9 Chapter List.9 Part Overview.9 Chapter 1: Learning the Basics.10 Overview.10 Heart and Soul of Windows XP.10 For Power Users.11 For IT Professionals.12 Registry Warnings and Myths.14 Must−Know Concepts.14 Security Identifiers.14 Globally Unique Identifiers.17 Hexadecimal Notation.17 Bits and Bit Masks.18 Little−Endian and Big−Endian.19 ANSI and Unicode Encoding.20 Null and Empty Strings.20 Structure of the Registry.20 Keys.22 Values.23 Types.24 Organization of the Registry.26 HKEY_USERS.27 HKEY_CURRENT_USER.28 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.29 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.29 HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG.30 Registry Management Tools.30 Registry Hive Files.31 Hives in HKLM.31 Hives in HKU.32 Chapter 2: Using the Registry Editor.33 Overview.33 Running Regedit.33 Exploring Regedit.34 Key Pane.35 Value Pane.36 Searching for Data.37 Searching Incrementally.38 i
