Part II: Registry in Management

Chapter List

Chapter 6: Using Registry-Based Policy

Chapter 7: Managing Registry Security

Chapter 8: Finding Registry Settings

Part Overview

Managing the registry is easier when you are armed with the right tools. This part describes those tools. You learn about registry-based policies and how to use them to manage settings in the registry. You learn how to track down registry settings and write scripts to change them. You also learn about registry security.

Whereas the first part of this book was for both power users and IT professionals, this part tends more toward IT professionals. Power users can still benefit from giving this part a thorough read, though, because some of the better customizations are actually policies, and customizing Windows XP is better done through scripts. Still, I give this part an IT slant because these are valuable IT tools.