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How to add custom registry keys to the Windows Embedded / ThinPC Registry Filter

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:55:26 +0000

When running Windows Embedded Standard 7 or Windows ThinPC with the Enhanced Write Filter (volume based protection) or File Based Write Filter (File based protection) enabled, the system returns to its original state upon every reboot. This is a good thing, but as always there are exceptions, one of them is Antivirus Software. When after a reboot a system is reset to its original state, it means that any changes such as the installation of engine updates are lost, to avoid this from happening file and registry exclusions can be set. I am going to focus on the registry filter as I made some findings I believe is worth sharing and might save you some time getting it to work. Registry Filter settings are stored within the Registry Filter Service located under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\RegFilter\Parameters\MonitoredKeys

Extract Path with spaces from Registry value

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:38:05 +0000

I’ve been browsing through the Microsoft TechNet Forums to see whether I can learn something new or maybe give someone a helping hand. Now before I am going to show the solution I gave someone, let me first tell you this.

It was just before having diner that I read the question and already thought of a possible solution, but then it was time for diner, moving away from my laptop I thought it looks like the knowledge on the good old DOS scripting language is slowly disappearing. When I came back from diner I submitted the response (after creating a little test script first). Once I had submitted my response, I noticed that the question was already marked as answered so unfortunately someone was faster in responding than me. Now comes the funny part of the story, it was the person himself who had provided the answer by writing some** C#** Code to do the job. Now this makes me feel really old

Optimizations for Virtualized Windows 7 clients

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:18:51 +0000

Just found these two blog posts that describe some Registry and Services optimizations when running Windows 7 as a virtual client.

Windows 7 Registry Optimizations for Virtual Desktops

Windows 7 Optimization – Disable Services

Thanks to Daniel Feller for sharing this

ToolTip - RegFromApp

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:44:05 +0000

Most Windows Operating System and Application settings are stored within the Windows Registry, so if you want to create a script that automates customized settings, but don’t know the exact registry key location or value, you usually end up creating a so-called registry snapshot that records the changes made to the Windows registry when applying a system or application change.

Creating registry snapshots can be done with almost every application packaging software like InstallShield, or Wise Package Studio, but requires that you have that software available and installed, which may not be always the case. Furthermore when creating an entire system snapshot you usually still end up with searching through the recorded changes to identify the changed registry key.

TCP/IP Registry values for Vista and Server 2008

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:42:26 +0000

Microsoft has updated the TCP/IP Registry Values for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 whitepaper that describes how to modify the TCP/IP behavior by making registry edits.

The document can be downloaded from here

No Automatic reboot please

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:59:22 +0000

Saturday morning, before going out with my family on a shopping tour I started a large FTP download and assumed it would have completed upon my return…. a few hours later, I found my system at the logon prompt, as it had rebooted itself automatically and of course the FTP download was not completed.

What happened ? Very simple, Windows Update had automatically rebooted the system, probably after having displayed a message as shown in the screen shot below.

Scripting Registry permissions

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:30:28 +0000

Today some e-mails where exchanged on how to best script registry permissions.

Depending on what you want to achieve here’s a couple of tools that can be of help.

SetACL.exe

http://www.helge.mynetcologne.de/setacl/index.htm http://setacl.sourceforge.net/

SubinACL.exe

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E8BA3E56-D8FE-4A91-93CF-ED6985E3927B&displaylang=en

Regini.exe

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237607

Putting drive letters first

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:42:01 +0000

When launching Windows Explorer, by default the driver letters are being displayed behind the volume / share name.

Some people, like myself don’t find this very convenient and want to see the drive letters in front of the volume / share description. This can be customized by applying the following registry key:

Reg ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer /v ShowDriveLettersFirst /t REG_DWORD /d 0x4 /f