The Windows Registry is a binary, hierarchical database of configuration information that not only controls various operating system and application configuration settings, but also maintains information about various aspects of the user's interaction with the system.
By understanding the format of the various Registry structures (i.e., keys and values) you can then parse and view portions of the Registry found in memory and unallocated space.
Some portions of the Registry are volatile, created when the system is started, and will not be found in an acquired image of a system.
Registry keys (and some values) have time stamps associated with them that can be used in timeline analysis. For this reason, the ...