[AccessD] Registry tweaks

I'm a little late in reading this, sorry.
Great idea, John!
like to participate

Lembit Soobik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "AccessD" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: [AccessD] Registry tweaks


> 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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