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Microsoft® Windows® Security: Essentials
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Microsoft® Windows® Security: Essentials

by Darril Gibson
June 2011
Beginner
372 pages
9h 54m
English
Sybex
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Assigning Registry Permissions

The Registry is a database of settings used in Windows. It includes several different groups of settings referred to as keys or hives. Windows Server 2008 has the following keys that you can access using the Registry editor. Each of these keys has many subkeys, or subtrees:

You can launch the Registry by clicking Start, typing regedit in the Start Search text box, and pressing Enter.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER Also known as HKCU, this hive stores the user profile for the user logged onto the local system. The profile includes information such as the environment variables, desktop settings, printers, and more.

HKEY_USERS Also known as HKU, this hive includes profile information for all user-profile data for all users loaded ...

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