Windows NT registry

Ms. Osborne offers a unique and authoritative approach to the topic. She intuitively organizes a vast amount of detailed information and couples it with her extensive hands-on experience in using the Registry to manage large-scale networks with thousands of clients and users.

More than a simple troubleshooting or optimization book, this solutions-driven guide shows you how to manage hardware, Windows NT Workstation and other clients, notebook computers, application software, and Internet settings in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. If you're a network developer, system engineer, server administrator, or workstation technician, you'll come to rely on the expert advice contained in this comprehensive reference.

If you rely on the Registry to manage software or configure client systems, this book will show you how to:

• Safely access, edit, and delete items from the Windows NT Registry
  
• Manage hardware settings for mice, keyboards, disk drives, sound cards, and memory settings
  
• Configure printers, network devices, and notebook computers
  
• Solve network communications problems through advanced and specialized configuration options
  
• Configure network protocols, including PPTP, IGMP, TCP/IP, and DHCP
  
• Use the Registry to configure application events and application schemes
  
• Manipulate Control Panel settings programmatically