By Peter D. Hipson
--This ebook teaches you concerning the Registry structure and the way it may be monitored and transformed to fit your administrative and private wishes. --Registry insurance for clients of home windows XP domestic variation, specialist, and .NET Server types. --Experienced home windows clients relocating to the XP/.NET platform, energy clients, directors who deal with home windows XP/.NET and preserve consumers, and programmers attracted to manipulating the Registry from their functions will locate this a necessary reference. --Includes overall assurance of the home windows XP/.NET registry, plus rankings of undocumented assistance and tips from a home windows grasp.
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SystemRoot% is a standard environment variable containing the location, drive, and directory where Windows XP has been installed. 3. 3: The Edit String window, where you can use an expanded environment variable in the string. Note Any environment variable, created by either the system or the user, may be used in a REG_EXPAND_SZ key. REG_DWORD A 32-bit value, entered as decimal or hexadecimal. 4 shows, allows you to enter only valid numeric data to save you from sloppy typing. 4: You can enter only numeric data in the Edit DWORD Value window.
The default SAM registry will contain at least the initial Administrator user ID and password, which you would have to know. However, say you lose the system component of the registry without adequate backup. In that case, it is unlikely that you'll be able to recover without reinstalling Windows XP, and that would be a painful experience at best. Of Hives and Bees—A Registry Overview As we discussed in Chapter 1, the Windows XP/NT registry is arranged into logical units called hives. Though I can't vouch for its truth, legend has it that some unnamed programmer at Microsoft seemed to see a logical relationship between the various keys in the registry and the structure of a beehive.
Map Displays a list of all drive mappings. This command's output is very useful for the fixboot, fixmbr, and fdisk commands. mkdir (md) Works similarly to the command session's md (mkdir) command. This command allows creating directories within the system directories of the currently logged-on installation, removable disks, root directories of hard disk partitions, and local installation sources. more Works like the command session's type command. Displays the file's contents on the screen. There are no parameters for the more command.