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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 10

USB Flash Drive Write Protection

System administrators might want to limit the use of external USB flash drives by making them read only. This can actually be useful in several situations like preventing users from copying local data to the external device or preventing malicious software from spreading on a computer network using those flash drives.
The Windows operating system has [...]

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Categories: Uncategorized, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Windows Registry Watcher

The Windows Registry is one of the major attack locations for malicious software and should therefor be protected by security software to ensure that no settings get changed or added to it. One prime example is the addition of new startup items to the Windows operating system. The Windows Registry contains several locations where those [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 8th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

How To Change The Edit Application In Windows

The Edit option pops up in Windows after right-clicking a file type in Windows Explorer. Windows associated one software program that can be used to edit that file type. For image files it is usually Microsoft Paint while text documents are usually opened in Notepad. Those applications are set in the Windows Registry where they [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 25th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Registry Analyzer

Registry Ripper is a portable software program to automatically analyze Registry Hives. It will analyze a selected Registry hive and export the findings into a selected text document. Registry Hives are locked by the Windows operating system which means that it is necessary to copy or access them before the operating system is running. This [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 13th, 2009
  • Comments: 9

Windows Registry Protection

The Windows Registry is of uttermost importance to the Windows operating system. Malicious software makes use of the capacities of the Windows Registry regularly by changing system settings and adding malicious scripts to the system startup process. Many security software programs do not protect the Windows Registry from those dangers which is why running an [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 21st, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Prevent Windows Registry from remembering last key viewed

One of the things that bothers me the most is when I open the Windows Registry to edit a key and it loads up showing me the last key I had viewed. I normally go into the Registry to make one change and that’s it. I never go back and edit the same key. Wouldn’t it be great if you could open the registry and all the hives would load up collapsed like you opened it for the first time ever?

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Categories: Knowledge, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 10th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Registry Benchmark

Not many software programs can benchmark the Registry. A tool that can do it is might be interesting to use after cleaning and compacting the Registry. Two software applications that can compact the Registry are NTRegOpt and Comodo Registry Cleaner. The tools defragment the Registry which reduces the size of it which decreases loading time [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

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