Getting Beyond Basics

This chapter described Regedit's essential features. These are the basics that you must know to perform routine tasks such as changing registry values. What you didn't learn in this chapter are some of the more advanced tasks that an IT professional or power user needs to truly master Windows XP. From this point forward, it's time to get past the basics and branch out in to other parts of this book. Learn more about Regedit in the following chapters:

• Chapter 3, "Backing Up the Registry," describes how to use Regedit as a troubleshooting tool. You also learn how to protect the registry.

• Chapter 7, "Managing Registry Security," describes how to set subkeys' permissions using Regedit. You also learn how to secure remote registry editing to prevent users from gaining access to other users' registries.

• Chapter 10, "Deploying User Profiles," shows you how to use Regedit to edit the settings in a user profile so you can deploy those settings to hundreds or even thousands of desktops throughout the organization.