on Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:09:13AM +0100, Randy Orrison (randy@orrison.com) wrote:
> Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> >Karsten M. Self wrote:
> >> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System]
> >>"LocalProfile"=dword:00000001
> >>
> >>My only question is this: is this key documented somewhere, and how
> >>would one ordinarially go about getting documentation on a registry key?
> >
> >Probably not documented. I doubt MS would want people to know too much
> >about the registry.
> > [...]
> >That is one of the reasons I laugh at people who complain about the lack
> >of documentation for free software.
>
> As with most documentation, free and proprietary, it's easy to find if
> you know in advance what you're looking for. Going to www.microsoft.com
> and entering "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Policies LocalProfile" into the search
> box on the front page returns two hits, different pages with the same
> content. One is here:
> <http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deployguide/en-us/263737.asp>
>
> Extracting from that page:
> | LocalProfile
> | HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
> | Description
> | Only allow local user profiles.
>
> I'm not saying this would be easy to find if you didn't already know the
> relevant registry key, but it is documented in the obvious place, and to
> me it's clear what it means. I have the same problem with documentation
> for a lot of free software: if you know what you're looking for it's a
> lot easier to find than if you just have a problem and don't know where
> to look for the solution.
Following up my prior response: the Registry documentation is new to
Win2K3 Server. I can find no similar documentation for any other
products, including copious searches of Microsoft's site (plenty of W2K3
results). So this is a new leaf.
The docs are also woefully inadequate. The
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows tree (IIRC) pretty much tops out just
where it starts getting interesting. This *despite* the fact that it's
the very product under which the documentation is found.
Old dog. Old tricks.
Peace.
--
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