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When the user logs on, NTUSER.DAT will be mounted in HKEY_USERS using its SID as the subkey, and also will appear as the HKEY_CURRENT_USER branch of the registry tree for the processes running as the user. NTUSER.DAT is held open for writing (i.e., "locked") whenever the user is logged on. My Documents
The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt to use the registry. . The kernel, device drivers, services, Security Accounts Manager, and user interfaces can all use the regis
User profile loading When users log on, their user profiles are loaded into the registry. In this way, the processes of the user can use the special registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Winlogon does this automatically after a successful logon but before activation of the shell for the newly logged-on user. Assignment of security to user shell
In computing, runas (a compound word, from “run as”) is a command in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems that allows a user to run specific tools and programs under a different username to the one that was used to logon to a computer interactively. [1]
To copy your Windows configuration from one PC to a new PC, you can use Regedit: On the old PC, click Start > Run... Type regedit and click OK; Select the folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\org\wikipediacleaner; Click File > Export... Enter a file name and click Save; Copy the .reg file from the old PC to the new PC
A roaming user profile is a file synchronization concept in the Windows NT family of operating systems that allows users with a computer joined to a Windows domain to log on to any computer on the same domain and access their documents and have a consistent desktop experience, such as applications remembering toolbar positions and preferences, or the desktop appearance staying the same, while ...
The Session Manager Subsystem is the first user-mode process started by the kernel. Once started it creates additional paging files with configuration data from HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management, [1] the environment variables located at the registry entry HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment, and DOS device mappings (e.g. CON ...
The NoDriveAutoRun and NoDriveTypeAutoRun Registry entries can exist in two places, the per-user setting (under HKEY_CURRENT_USER) and the per-machine setting (under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE). If an entry appears under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then any corresponding entry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER is completely ignored. The data values are not merged in any ...