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Maintaining and Troubleshootng Your Windows NT System
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Author: Sean Daily
Published: February 1997
Copyright: 1997
Publisher: 29th Street Press
 


TABLE 7.4   WINDOWS NT REGISTRY EDITOR KEYS
Key Name Description of Contents
HKEY_CURRENT_USER This is the root of the configuration information for the user who is currently logged on. The user’s folders, screen colors, and Control Panel settings are stored here. This information is referred to as a user’s profile.
HKEY_USERS This is the root key of all user profiles on the computer. HKEY_CURRENT_USER is a subkey of the HKEY_USERS key.
HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE This key contains general configuration information for the local computer and is not specific to any one user.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT This is a subkey of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software. The information stored here is used to open the correct application when a file is opened using the Windows NT Explorer and for COM/DCOM operations (a.k.a. OLE/Network OLE).
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG This key contains information about the hardware profile used by the local computer at system startup. This key/window is a new feature in Windows NT 4.0.



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