Excelent Tutorial, it was pretty useful, thanks a lot



Anonymous User 5/5/2005 11:52:10 AM

reg is known as regedit on win2k

Anonymous User 4/18/2005 5:32:34 PM

Most other OSes do not have anything like the registry, which is basically an OS internals obfuscation mechanism.

Some folks say the registry obscures the details of OS configuration on purpose, to lock out other vendors; some say that the windows OS is so grossly inefficient it must have a pre-digested binary configuration in order to achieve reasonable interface response.

Other OSes have configuration interfaces that are human-readable, rather than binary blobs... for example, in unix-derived systems there are configuration directories containing configuration files; they correspond to hives and keys but can be manipulated with simple text editor (and more importantly, they can be COMMENTED for human comprehension).

Compaq/DEC VMS and IBM's OS390/MVS and OS/400 systems also use human-readable configuration systems.

Most people outside the windows hothouse consider the registry to be an abomination.

Anonymous User 2/25/2005 9:25:06 AM

What are the alternatives on other OS's?

MARK2/2/2005 11:06:01 AM

I've found the REGINI.EXE tool from the Windows 2000 Server resource kit far more powerful. In addition to doing everything that REG.EXE can do, REGINI.exe can also change permissions on registry keys. Useful if, say, you want to allow everyone to update HKLM\\CLSID\\FormFlow.Form (this, with other registry permissions changed, stops an annoying popup for non-administrators on Windows 2000/XP when they try FormFlow).

Chris Keene 7/2/2004 7:46:00 AM

For Windows 2000, reg.exe only comes with the Resource Kit, I believe; for Windows XP, it's built in.

Robert Morley 6/30/2004 3:28:25 PM

After reading this article I was quite excited to try the reg.exe utility. I tried both on Win2K Advanced Server and Win2K Professional, but neither had this utility. I searched my entire PC for the reg.exe and reg.* and found nothing. On my laptop (Windows XP Pro) I had no problem, but would like to use this on my server. What am I doing wrong...is this a utility that must be installed. In the article it states that it comes built in to the OS, but is it an optional part of the OS?

Wilson Steiger 4/26/2004 5:11:51 AM