[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