Registry

Registry is a database which stores the s/w and hardware information of a computer.This resides(contains) in the file user.dat and system.dat from windows 95 version onwards ; before that there was no concept of registry apart from this all informations are stored in the following files Config.sys,autoexec.bat,system.ini,control.ini,win.ini. For editing the registry files windows supplies 'Regedit' named tool .Registry details can be exported and imported .Exported registry files with be .reg extension ;its a text based file.

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup]
"setup type"=dword.00000000
"cmdline"=setup_new setup
"System Perfix"=hex:c5,0b,00,00,40,36,02

In registry the hyphone symbol '-' is used for commenting.

Based upon the information registry is divided into 6 sections.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
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This section contains the information of different type of file extensions,OLE related details,Drag & drop features ,Windows shortcut ,User interface etc.


HKEY_CURRENT_USER
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Contains the information of login user detials and their desktop and start menu settings.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
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This stores information about hardware and s/w details .There are many subkeys in this section

Config :
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Contains information about assemblence of different hardwares .

Enum :
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It contains all details about device drivers in the PC.

Hardware :
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It contains information about Serial Port ,Processors,Floating Point Processers etc

Network :
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Network related details .

Software :
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Information about What all Softwares installed in the PC.

System :
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It deals with information about the device drivers which is uesd in the Pcand its assembly details.

HKEY_USERS
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Contains the information of all user detials and their desktop and start menu settings.


HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
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Details about Hardware Configuration.

HKEY_DYN_DATA
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In registry there are 5 different datatypes

1) REG_BINARY : This datatypes are used for mainly storing hardware related informations .Its value is shhown in hexadecimal format.
2) REG_DWORD : This is 4 byte in length ,consist of boolean data 0 and 1 .Its value can be seen in hexadecimal or in decimal format .
3) REG_SZ : String datatype.
4) REG_EXPAND_SZ :
5) REG_MULTI_SZ :

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Hkey_current_user\control Panel\desktop locate

Menushowdelay change value from 400 to 15

To hide drives

HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer - this changes the settings for all users on the machine.
You may have to create the key folder "Explorer" manually.

3. In the Explorer key folder, create a new DWORD value by right-clicking Explorer, then
choosing New DWORD value. Name the value "NoDrives" (without the quotes). This value defines
local and network drive visibility for each logical drive on the computer. All drives will be
visible as long as this value's data is set to 0.

4. Following the table below, enter the decimal number corresponding to the drive(s) you want
to hide as NoDrives value data. When you right-click on NoDrives and choose Modify, make
sure you select Decimal base, not Hexadecimal.And restart windows

Drive Number to hide
A: 1
B: 2
C: 4
D: 8
E: 16
F: 32
G: 64
H: 128
I: 256
J: 512
K: 1024
L: 2048
M: 4096
N: 8192
O: 16384
P: 32768
Q: 65536
R: 131072
S: 262144
T: 524288
U: 1048576
V: 2097152
W: 4194304
X: 8388608
Y: 16777216
Z: 33554432
All drives 67108863