Windows Registry Troubleshooting by Mike Halsey, Andrew Bettany

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 middle of your machine adventure. software program installs and compatibility, operation and extra are controlled by means of a fancy database of codes and numbers. whilst whatever is going flawed it could appear very unlikely to diagnose and service the matter, and more durable nonetheless to avoid a recurrence or make the sophisticated alterations and tweaks required to mend the matter. during this e-book we’ll take you contained in the workings of the Registry, and educate you ways to fix, alter and fresh it to maintain your computers operating smoothly.

What you’ll learn

1) how one can navigate the structure of the home windows Registry

2) the best way to troubleshoot defective and corrupt Registry items

3) easy methods to edit and paintings with the Registry records of alternative clients on a PC

4) What instruments and utilities might be useful paintings with and service the Registry

5) easy methods to safe the registry on a home windows PC

6) What Registry tweaks and hacks could make utilizing your home windows laptop a greater experience
Who this e-book is for

Windows strength clients, process 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 target: A deep dive into the constitution and structure of the registry, together with its diversified key kinds, 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 concerning the quite a few 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 earlier than and after Registries

Chapter three: Troubleshooting and Corrupt Registry

Chapter objective: educating the reader how you can diagnose and service matters with a corrupt registry on a PC

Troubleshooting fundamentals
discovering corruptions in the Registry

Chapter four: complicated Registry Troubleshooting

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

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

Chapter five: Securing the home windows Registry

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

figuring out Registry safety in your PC
Securing the Registry with the home windows protection tools
Securing the Registry with encryption
coping with and keeping robust password enforcement for procedure administrators

Chapter 6: Tweaks, Hacks and customary Registry Changes

Chapter aim: Bonus fabric to assist IT professionals harness the total energy and power of the registry for reinforcing 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'll cause them to

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Unused and unlinked) Registry keys and remove them. Using a Registry cleaner can reduce the overall size, and therefore load time, of the Registry databases, and prevent data corruption. Table 2-10 lists a number of popular third-party Registry cleaners. 31 Chapter 2 ■ Registry Tools and Utilities Table 2-10. html Summary While RegEdit is the most well known and perhaps widely used utility for editing and working with the Windows Registry, it’s by no means the only one available nor the most flexible—that prize clearly goes to PowerShell.

34 Chapter 3 ■ Troubleshooting a Corrupted Registry Hardware or Device Driver Failure Hardware and drivers are typically supplied by the hardware vendor and issued as a CD, DVD, or download for the user to install when configuring the device. For most of the lifetime of Windows, Microsoft has implemented a program that allowed Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), upon payment of a fee, to supply their drivers to the Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL) team. The WHQL would extensively test and verify the compatibility of the driver against the selected operating system, and if the driver was functional then Microsoft would digitally sign the driver, include it in its Upgrade Advisor tool (which replaced the Hardware Compatibility List [HCL] used in the XP timeframe), and make it available as part of Windows Update.

Creating new Registry keys with Group Policy Preferences There are three Registry key options available to choose from, as shown in Table 4-1. Table 4-1. Options for Creating New Registry Keys with Group Policy Preferences New Option Description Registry Item Allows creation of a single Registry item. Collection Item Creates and organizes Registry Preference items into a folder. Useful if you need to add a group of Registry items. Registry Wizard Wizard to use the local Registry as a reference, or connect to a remote PC.

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