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Microsoft® Windows® Security Resource Kit, Second Edition
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Microsoft® Windows® Security Resource Kit, Second Edition

by Ben Smith, Brian Komar, The Microsoft Security Team
March 2005
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
19h 47m
English
Microsoft Press
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Securing Registry Permissions

The registry is a dynamic, hierarchical database that contains values of variables for the operating system and applications. The operating system and other programs also store data about users and the current configuration of the system and its components in the registry. Because the registry is available whenever the system is running, programs that start and stop can keep persistent data in the registry and the settings are saved when the system shuts down. The registry is constructed of six hives that are used for different purposes, as described in Table 8-11.

Table 8-11. Default Registry Hives
HiveAbbreviationDescription
HKEY_CURRENT_USERHKCUStores information about the profile of the currently logged-on user ...
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