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Mastering Python Forensics
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Mastering Python Forensics

by Michael Spreitzenbarth, Johann Uhrmann
October 2015
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Analyzing the Windows Registry

The Windows Registry is one of the essential components of the current Microsoft Windows operating systems and thus also a very important point in a forensic investigation. It performs two critical tasks for the Windows operating system. First, it is the repository of settings for the Windows operating system and the applications that are installed on the system. Second, it is the database of the configuration of all installed hardware. Microsoft defines the registry as follows:

"A central hierarchical database used in Microsoft Windows 98, Windows CE, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 used to store information that is necessary to configure the system for one or more users, applications and hardware devices." (Microsoft ...

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ISBN: 9781783988044