Registry problem

[amaneet]

Sir/Madam, I wanted to know something about the registry.As the executiable files of the machine resides into the registry. Now My Question is , eg there is Yahoo Messanger installed on my machine. What keysin the registry allows the user to open the yahoo messanger.I mean , Administrator can prevent the user to stop openning a particular exe. Likewise what are the keys involved in the registry that prevent the user to stop openning the yahoo messenger. Thanks and Regards Pankaj Garg

[Zaegra]

Try installing Yahoo Messenger at your own computer and search the registery yourself? You can open the registery editor by using Start --> Run --> regedit --Zaegra--

[Dave Kreskowiak]

amaneet wrote:

As the executiable files of the machine resides into the registry

I think you've asked this question before... .EXE's are NOT stored in the registry. Indexes to COM components, which are supplied to certain .EXE's and .DLL's, are stored there.

amaneet wrote:

What keysin the registry allows the user to open the yahoo messanger

There are no keys that allow this.

amaneet wrote:

Administrator can prevent the user to stop openning a particular exe.

This is controlled by Group Policy. Pickup a copy of the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit to learn more about it.

Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
     2006, 2007