Tag Archives: Registry

Fixing Profile permissions

Posted on January 7, 2009 by deoren

A friend of mine (adopted brother) accidentally infected his laptop with malware and I’ve finally made time (and was able to) to restore his setup. He has an Acer Aspire 5500 with Windows XP Media Center 2005, but didn’t have … Continue reading →

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Moving a Windows profile

Posted on December 7, 2008 by deoren

I would copy a profile from a user’s system, wipe it, reinstall and then copy the profile back only to find that if the person had admin rights, no problem – everything worked. If not, even after I gave their … Continue reading →

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Reading the registry via Win32API

Posted on September 25, 2008 by deoren

Ugh. I had no idea just how badly my knowledge of C programming was until I attempted to read a single value from the registry. In the end I found that the majority of my problems were because of UNICODE … Continue reading →

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Fall feeling in the air

Posted on September 16, 2008 by deoren

I rushed outside this morning (running behind) to find the air crisp and feeling very much like my favorite season on the way. Work was “work” and progress seemed to crawl along. I managed to complete (let’s hope) a Python … Continue reading →

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