Fine-Tune the
`,
`W"ndows 95 Registry
`with Confidence!
`
`A Reference for
`the Rest of Usf
`by Glenn E. Weadock ' (
`Author of Int'.net PUblllhlng For 0"""",..-
`& Mark Wilkins
`
`The Fun and Easy Way'"
`to Safely Edit the
`Windows 95 RelPstry
`Your First Aid Kit'
`for Solving RelPstry
`Problems
`Optimizing and
`Safeguarding the
`Windows 95 RelPstry
`- Explained in
`Plain Eng/ish
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`In this part .. ....
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`Sing in me, muse, of that wise man
`Who wandered the Registry of Windows 95
`And found that with aid from his backup plan
`His hard disk could crash, his PC stay alive . ...
`
`II ~y do you need to know about the Registry? Well,
`W ~e believe that everybody who uses Windows 95
`
`or Windows 98 should know at least a little bit about it,
`because it's at the center of everything that Windows does.
`
`This is the place where you get your sea legs under you
`for your odyssey across the Windows 95 Registry, learn(cid:173)
`ing the background you need and the tools you'll use to
`fine-tune your Registry in the safest possible way. You
`also find out how to batten down the hatches with an all(cid:173)
`important backup of your Registry.
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