Is there any book for *.reg.?

[kaje_ovo]

Is there any book for *.reg.!

Some book that will tell everything what is what registry and what is it's purpose.!

What it do.!

Let say. If I go into

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\]

It will say for every key string inside what is his puropse. And what will change if I change it and how.

on HOW i meen. if dword:00000000 what will dword:00000001 do.!

[Zxian]

You want a reference manual to what each of the 200,000 something registry keys does? I'm not sure that you'll find such a book...

[XPero]

Mastering Windows XP Registry

Peter Hipson

Associate Publisher: Joel Fugazzotto

Acquisitions and Developmental Editor: Ellen L. Dendy

Editor: Anamary Ehlen

Production Editor: Elizabeth Campbell

Technical Editor: Donald Fuller

Electronic Publishing Specialist: Maureen Forys, Happenstance Type-O-Rama

Proofreaders: Nanette Duffy, Emily Hsuan, Laurie O'Connell, Yariv Rabinovitch, Nancy

Riddiough

Book Designer: Maureen Forys, Happenstance Type-O-Rama

Indexer: Ted Laux

Cover Designer: Design Site

Cover Illustrator: Sergie Loobkoff

First edition copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc.

ISBN: 0-7821-2987-0.

Introduction

The registry has evoked emotions from terror to mystery. Few Windows XP users consider

the registry their friend. After all, think of it: The registry is the heart and soul of the

Windows XP operating system. The registry is everything-it is the brain of the operating

system. Damage the registry, and Windows XP quickly develops brain damage and needs

major surgery.

This is it-the only book on the Windows XP registry that you will need. Now, I won't kid you;

there are a few other books on the Windows registry. Every current version of Windows uses

a similar registry structure, but we do find that there are sufficient differences between them

make it difficult for one book to cover everything well.

[spiritpyre]

Not saying a book wouldn't help or that it wouldn't be a handy reference but

Just as a sidenote: any book that covers that registry values, etc still won't have everything (i.e. custom program settings, settings that correspond to recent MS Updates, etc.)

besides even if someone has absolutely NO life and catalogues each of the 200,000 (or more?) registry keys/values and their purposes (think about how much of a bi*** that would be for those huge binary values if you wanted to go into uber-details lol) --- do you really want to waste your time with the 199,700+ registry entries that you couldn't normally care less about?

[Martin Zugec]

One of my favourites authors Jerry Honeycutt wrote a book Windows XP Registry Guide.

It is not about different values etc, it is more about principes etc, really nice.

http://www.honeycutt.com/

BTW this guy also wrote really great Windows Desktop Deployment Resource Kit