WMI and the Registry
Traditionally, if we can call doing something for a few years a tradition, the Registry has been the savior of system administrators who, frustrated with a limited GUI interface, wanted to tweak the machines under their control. Ever since the launch of Windows 95, the Registry has been the primary location for vast swathes of configuration options that can be used to control operating system components with a precision that far exceeds that which can be accomplished through the GUI. A constant frustration, however, has always been that comparatively few of the useful Registry keys and values have ever been documented officially; administrators wanting to tweak them either had to resort to unofficial documentation, the web, ...
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