[AccessD] Registry tweaks

Francisco,

The class I found and use uses api calls for the registry stuff.  I am
looking at doing this in parallel in VB.Net.  VB.Net has a built-in registry
class which would be used.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H
Tapia
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:11 AM
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



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-Francisco

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