Part I: REGISTRY BASICS.

Chapter 1: What Is a Registry-and Why?

Chapter 2: Readme.1st: Preventing Disaster!

Chapter 3: Anatomy of the Registry: The Blood, Gore, and Guts.

Chapter 4: Registry Tools and Tips: Getting the Work Done.

Chapter 5: Policies, Good for One, Good for All.

Part II: ADVANCED REGISTRY STUFF.

Chapter 6: Associations, Linkages, and OLE: How Confusing Can This Get?

Chapter 7: Why, Oh Why, Are There System.ini and Win.ini Files?

Chapter 8: Getting Rid of the Unwanted.

Chapter 9: Recovering from Disaster, or Making the Best of a Bad Situation.

Chapter 10: Programming and the Registry: A Developer's Paradise?

Chapter 11: The Performance Monitor Meets the Registry.

Part III: WINDOWS AND OFFICE REGISTRY ENTRIES.

Chapter 12: The Windows 2000 User Interface: Changing How It Looks.

Chapter 13: Networking and Registry System Entries.

Chapter 14: Microsoft Office Entries.

Part IV: THE REGISTRY REFERENCE.

Chapter 15: Introduction to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.

Chapter 16: Introduction to HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_USERS.

Chapter 17: Introduction to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

Chapter 18: Introduction to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software.

Chapter 19: Introduction to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System and HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG.

Appendices.

Appendix A: Common Hives and Keys.

Appendix B: Registry Data Types.

Appendix C: Where Can I Get More Help?

Appendix D: Performance Counters.

Appendix E: Plug-and-Play Identifiers.

Appendix F: Office 2000 CLSIDs.

Index.