Managing The Windows 2000 Registry

Acknowledgments

When I first approached Robert Denn at O’Reilly & Associates about revising Managing the Windows NT Registry to cover Windows 2000, neither of us realized what we were getting into. The devil is always in the details, and Windows NT and Windows 2000 are superficially similar in lots of ways--but then the details rear their ugly heads.

As with my other O’Reilly books, I was fortunate to work with a team of true professionals at O’Reilly’s Cambridge office, led by the tireless (and very patient) Robert Denn. Steven Abrams was the editorial assistant for this book.

This book benefited from the technical knowledge and writing skill of two other writers. Tom Fronckowiak, cryptographer to the stars, wrote Chapter 7 and revised Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 when my schedule began to oppress me. Likewise, Greg Bacon applied his considerable Perl talents to revising the Perl coverage in Chapter 8 so that it was more in keeping with an O’Reilly book; something my own meager Perl skills would have prevented. Tye McQueen, author of the Win32::TieRegistry module, generously allowed me to use his documentation as a base for the Perl discussion.

The technical review process for this book took longer than usual, in large part because of the volume, and quality, of technical review comments I got back. I’d like to thank my friend Glenn Fincher for taking time out of his busy schedule to review the book; in addition, my thanks go to the other reviewers, Jon Forrest, Cory L. Scott, David ...