Where's the list of ALL POSSIBLE registry entries???

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Somebody posts a request, "how do I stop windows from doing
this annoying behavior....?"

Somebody replies, "open the registry and enter this new key with
this value." The value is some GUID or a 50 character string of
concatenated word fragments.

How the heck did they determine that??
Is there some master list of all possible registry entries for, say,
Windows XP and what they do?

A key wouldn't do anything if the OS wasn't already programmed to look
for and respond in a defined manner to such an entry. There gotstabealist.

I'm migrating to XP just because more and more hardware and software no
longer supports 98. Most of what I want to do is turn OFF most of the
annoying
popups and other "helpers" in XP. "Leave me alone and just execute
the darn applications...!!"

Sure would make working with windows a LOT easier if we knew what to do.

My immediate desire is to put a much longer delay in the popup
description that you get when you mouseover a file icon in XP.
The description is very occasionally very useful...but mostly VERY
ANNOYING.
Can't see the filenames in a list if there's a big description box over it.

Thanks, mike
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List of ALL POSSIBLE entries? No such thing? That would be a map with
all future possible roads on it. Or better yet a library containing all
the unwritten books! If your application inserts an entry how would a
list maker know what it was BEFORE it was created?
 
I think he's referring to the Windows OS, not application software.

Dozens of books are available on Windows' registry, but I've never
seen a comprehensive list of all possible keys and values.
 
Bob said:
List of ALL POSSIBLE entries? No such thing? That would be a map with
all future possible roads on it. Or better yet a library containing all
the unwritten books! If your application inserts an entry how would a
list maker know what it was BEFORE it was created?
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Before you hurt yourself flying off the handle, reread what I asked:That's pretty specific. Windows XP is is stable for at least a few
microseconds. Take a snapshot and pretend it's fixed.
Somewhere, at least inside microsoft, there should be collections of
this information. Publishing it would help us all. 50% of it would be
a lot more useful than none.

mike



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Rick said:
I think he's referring to the Windows OS, not application software.

Dozens of books are available on Windows' registry, but I've never
seen a comprehensive list of all possible keys and values.
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Books are very handy to look up the details of things you already
know. If it's not listed in the index by the exact term you think
you're looking for, and it rarely is, a hardcopy book is nearly useless.

Are there online searchable databases of this stuff?
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Microsoft has never published such a list for any operating system Mike.
At best they have published the common stuff and even then not in one
repository. Then of course there are the so called "Undocumented Keys"
that MS doesn't really want us to know about but that the resourceful
users find by accident or by experimentation. Some very knowledgeable
people have published excellent books on the subject but even then the
list in these books is far from exhaustive.

You'll have to do like the rest of us, gain the information in bits and
pieces here and there. You can search MS KB for "Inside the Windows
Registry" and you will get the basics.

Mark Russinovich
http://www.winntmag.com/Authors/Ind...Row=41&MaxRowsPerPage=20&Total=53&AuthorID=76
has written very good books on the subject and has many articles on
the Web. He is a contributor to WindowsIt Pro, a very good web site.

You can also browse through Jerold Shulman's site http://www.jsiinc.com/
There is a lot of good information there.

John
 
See the spreadsheet linked at tip 7682 » Group Policy spreadsheet for .ADM template settings for Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional (including SP2), and Windows Server 2003
in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

As others have stated, it is NOT comprehensive.

Before you hurt yourself flying off the handle, reread what I asked:
That's pretty specific. Windows XP is is stable for at least a few
microseconds. Take a snapshot and pretend it's fixed.
Somewhere, at least inside microsoft, there should be collections of
this information. Publishing it would help us all. 50% of it would be
a lot more useful than none.

mike
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Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 
Jerold said:
See the spreadsheet linked at tip 7682 » Group Policy spreadsheet for .ADM template settings for Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional (including SP2), and Windows Server 2003
in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com
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Now, that's some good bedtime reading.
Thanks, mike
 
Steve_S said:
In mike typed:



And here is the 2003 registry reference on line (available with the 2003
deployment / reskit) if your not tired yet

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...3/all/deployguide/en-us/regentry_overview.asp
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Thanks for the link. Is there any way to download this for offline
reading? Very awkward to navigate all the active server pages with
dialup. Trend toward online-only documentation is very annoying.
mike

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