[AccessD] Registry tweaks

Thanks, just checking. Are you on the Eng-Lib list? Maybe we could take it
over there and continue. I'm certainly willing to give some effort.

jb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John W. Colby
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 11:23 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Registry tweaks
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>
> Nope.  That happens though.  There may not be a lot of interest.
> Plus it's
> a holiday.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Bartow
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 11:51 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Registry tweaks
>
>
> JC,
> Not a lot of posts lately so I'm just a wondering if I'm seeing them all.
>
> Has anyone else responded to this post?
>
> JB
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John W. Colby
> > Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 11:20 AM
> > To: AccessD
> > 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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