[AccessD] Registry tweaks

I agree it's a good idea.  I'd be willing to help.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> Francisco H Tapia
> Sent: Monday, 01 December, 2003 2:11 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Registry tweaks
> 
> 
> John,
>    This is cool, I never really thought of compiling anything like 
> this.. it's a great project, are you going to store keys based on OS 
> flavor? (ie, 9x/NT/2k/XP).  Additionally are you going to use the 
> internal vba calls to the registry or the APIs?
> 
> :D. thanks.
> 
> John W. Colby wrote:
> 
> > Have ya ever... wished you had a place to store all the 
> registry tweaks you
> > run across?  I have run across so many things where they 
> tell you to go to
> > the registry and set / clear / delete some entry.  I can 
> NEVER remember
> > where I found the tweak, but I always remember I was 
> supposed to do some
> > unnamed thing to make something happen.
> > 
> > It all started with securing IIS.  An article I ran across 
> gives a handful
> > of registry tweaks to tighten up security.  Of course I can 
> use regedit but
> > how blasé
> > 
> > Well I just whipped out a little database to hold the key / 
> value name /
> > value and a memo about the registry key, as well as a 
> parent "topic" table
> > that lets me organize the entries by a topic of my 
> choosing, complete with
> > memo.  At the moment you have to type the registry key / 
> value name / value
> > in, but once you do you can press a button and the entry is 
> created in the
> > registry.  It uses a registry class for anyone interested 
> in how to read /
> > write the registry (or doesn't want to write their own) 
> courtesy of a VB
> > Techniques article written by Eric Smith on 3/29/2000.  I 
> also use a few
> > withevent classes for those of you who want to see how I 
> use Withevents to
> > run the basic forms.
> > 
> > I may (probably will) eventually write code to back up an 
> existing key
> > before modification, read registry chunks into the table 
> etc.  Not there
> > yet.
> > 
> > I think it would be cool to organize a huge "registry 
> tweak" database where
> > anyone interested gets this database and enters their 
> favorite tweak, then
> > donates their tweaks to a pool.  I can take care of merging 
> everyone's
> > tweaks into a single database and get the resulting pool up 
> on my web site.
> > 
> > Anyone interested?  Anyone know of a public domain db that 
> I can get tweaks
> > already in a db?
> > 
> > John W. Colby
> > www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Francisco
> 
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