A book for admins, power users, and anyone fed up with reinstalling Windows every few months, to help them diagnose and repair problems with any Windows version in the workplace, including hardware and software incompatibilities, corrupt registries and how to implement common tweaks and hacks.

Chapter Goal: A deep dive into the structure and architecture of the registry, including its different key types, file structure and hosting.

1. What is the Windows Registry?
2. Windows Registry files
3. The Registry Structure in Depth
4. Registry Keys in Depth

Chapter Goal: Teaching people about the various tools available to help them work with the Registry in any version of Windows

1. Windows Regedit
2. ScanReg
3. Process Monitor
4. CCleaner
5. Additional third-party Registry tools
6. Comparing before and after Registries

Chapter Goal: Teaching the reader how to diagnose and repair issues with a corrupt registry on a PC

1. Troubleshooting fundamentals
2. Finding corruptions within the Registry

Chapter Goal: Teaching people how they can perform advanced diagnostics and troubleshooting including working on other people’s Registry files

1. Editing other users’ Registry files
   1. Advanced diagnosis of the Windows Registry
   2. Advanced key repair and replacement
   Chapter 5: Securing the Windows Registry

   Chapter Goal: Teaching people how to ensure the registries on their PCs are safe from malware attack and direct interference

   1. Understanding Registry security on your PC
   2. Securing the Registry with the Windows security tools
   3. Securing the Registry with encryption
   4. Managing and maintaining strong password enforcement for system administrators
   Chapter 6: Tweaks, Hacks and Common Registry Changes

   Chapter Goal: Bonus material to help IT pros harness the full power and potential of the registry for enhancing the user and productivity experience, while also providing examples readers can use to practice Registry editing

   1. Common Registry Hacks
   2. Tweaking the Registry to improve the PC experience
   3. Other common Registry changes and why you would make them