I attended the Microsoft Solutions Conference Wednesday down by the
Key Arena and considered it money well spent.  The speaker
(I attended the NT4.0 session) discussed real world configurations
and real world problems. Questions were freely taken from the audience.
The whole day presented by CompuMaster held my interest.
It wasn't any snooze alert that's for sure. 
At 4:40 p.m. we were completing the Registry editing , securing the registry,
and remote administration. Hey were you aware that you can put a keychange.reg
file up on your web page and then folks who visit your site or are instructed
to (intranet or internet) can click on the *.reg link you put up there.....
just out of curiosity of course. (cut to sinking feeling) and guess what ?
A real boon for remote administration !!  The DEFAULT Windows 95 action for
a REG file is to import it right into the registry !
    Hello ! did I miss something here ??
While you are digesting this thought, open up your view menu up there on
the menu  and click on options. Now  click on the Programs tab.
See the file types button, good.. click on that.  We're looking for a
registered file type way down in the R's, so scroll down to the R's
R like in registration entries.  Did you find the "helper app" registration
entries.  I have removed my "helper.app" from registered file types.
All my regedit.exe and regedit32.exe files reside right now on my zip drive.
Just in case I didn't miss something here...
  I like (am learning how) to work with active controls and Java applets and
it doesn't take much of an imagination to put something dreadful together -
from "putting a REG file up on a html page" to ease remote administration.
A REG file that is ready for import by Regedit or Regedit32 is a simple TEXT
file and by DEFAULT gets imported directly into your registry.  Simple.. Right,
I suppose your P.C. OS would continue to function just fine after an
itinerant key.REG gets downloaded from the simple action of clicking on a link
that contains the ~gotchya.REG , until  well... you've  re-booted ,
or shut the P.C. off for the evening and the next evening you power back up..
[your Windows 95 may never run again]  "you get the idea.
maybe not today,  maybe not tomorrow,  but soon,  and for the rest of....
You know how that one goes.   However; remote REGISTRY changes could go very
wrong if not administered correctly.
Your P.C. will work just fine  UNTIL your next session on the P.C... boggles the mind.
I suppose if you were witness to the deed you could leave your computer on
(and never turn it off).  THANK YOU for clicking that link  **Registry Processing**
**Please re-boot to complete configuration changes**      excuse me !!
If you did witness such an action, and you had diligently been using CFGback
from the Windows95 CD-ROM, you could restore your registry using cfgback and
just walk on !
Okay, so I must have to read farther in these books I have, right.
This can't be as bad as it sounds, right. Never log onto the internet in your
system administrators account....create a restricted Users account just for the
purposes of "surfing".  They're ON my zip drive.
I will manually copy the Regedit back to c:\win95 before I go to install software,
then zoom! it's outa there!
Same exercise with regedit32  (d:\winnt)  If you are following along...
Yours will be in the sub directory that you installed windows 95 into.  Or NT into.
I have resting between the keyboard and me, a book "WINDOWS 95 and NT 4.0 Registry
& Customization Handbook " from QUE by Jerry Honeycutt.   Beneath that is the
Solutions Conference material book by CompuMaster.   So  I'm reading okay..
the "default" quote from above is on page 264.  Maybe, we could test this,
I'll put a ~gotchya.REG up on one of my pages and you swing by and click on the reg link.
Then you could telephone me and tell me what happened,
yep, by voice,   I want to hear what octave you're presently using cause you
ain't going to be able to e-mail me from your P.C.. right ?

....Later on in the week....

I DID test this registry (.REG) file as a link up on a Dell pentium pro (dual cpu, but
only one is present), [have to remember the stepping rate have to be the same, when
upgrading to two cpus]. There is a DEC storageWorks box hanging off the scsi card for
easier installation of scsi devices,  a 4gb HDD is plugged into the StorageWorks.
Software installed on the Dell server,  Windows NT 4.0 server with IIS present.
I Tcp/IP'ed over from a pieced together pentium 100mhz running Windows 95, and the Dell
served up the Microsoft htmlsample.htm `home page'. Only I had been there first.
I had added the reg link to the default IIS home page, and the `text' registry key as
the Href. Over on the pentium 100, I clicked the reg link and here come the "text'
registry key, only over about 15 feet of Internet but `tense' anyway. I had picked a
safe key to test. Well before the file did get processed by the registry it was
intercepted with the unsafe and possible virus warning message. I was asked
(message boxed) whether or not to open or save. The cache and running files from the
cache must be the idea here. everything goes to the cache and becomes screenable by
Windows or Internet Explorer. Which leads me to another question these `preloaders'
(activex and java controls)...if it all goes to the cache first anyway.... Maybe
you've just added 19k of a `control' to slam that sucker into the cache big time !
This is my next self assigned task. (to figure that one out..streamed  ?)
 So I opened up the file types in IE3.01 (tried this with the newest security patch and
without the patch; revealing no change there). and then I hacked a little.
 Turned off confirm download tried that; I added %1 and received an error
message that pertained to `unable to process file into registry, incorrect file type or
file format'. Boy, I clicked on that link Locally and IE3.01 shoved that reg file at
the registry and poof!! Registry changes processed.
  However; from the cache with a text reg key.. error error or sorry partner
The reg key would not get through to the Registry.
I will try the reg key as an e-mail attachment with a piece of email software that only
requires one to double click on the attachment and it figures out the file to open it in.
I get the impression IE3.01 is secure,
    but ya just gotta try these tricks..know what I mean ?
secure@microsoft.com at Microsoft got back to me (email) this morning with
   "IE3.01 asks you to open or save".

 ..My RegEdit files are still on my zip drive..  and Registration
entries is still deleted from my (helper.app's)  registered file types.


Where am I going with this thought, heck I don't know.. ask a computer friend
about this registry topic.
 I hope you enjoy your visit as much as I enjoy putting the pages together !