The Windows 98 Registry Little Black Book : The Essential Daily Guide to Cracking the PC Code Book

Describes and demonstrates Windows 98 Registry functions and tools for customizing and optimizing personal computer systems through system properties, Device Manager, and various profiles. Translates the specialized language of the Windows 98 Registry with terms such as dynamic keys, CLSIDs, DWORD values, ProgIDs, and verbs (they're not what your English teacher told you!). Offers quick tips and solutions to speed up performance and improve a PC's error checking. Demonstrates migrating from Windows INI files to the Registry. Shows how to access the Registry remotely; change user profiles; and create, view, and expand Registry keys. Combines concise overviews, practical projects, and reference information in a thoroughly indexed and easy-to-access format. The only compact guide that reveals Microsoft's best-kept secrets on its Registry. The key to writing programs that personalize and optimize a PC's performance. Clearly illustrates Registry hierarchies with sharp diagrams on a perforated tear-out card. Cracks the complicated code of a PC's central database of configuration so that readers can enhance and personalize their PC's productivity. Identifies utilities new to the Windows 98 Registry, such as improved error checking. Reveals undocumented and little-known Registry functions useful to the information technology professional or programmer.