Windows Xp Tips

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I have a question i've been looking for someone to answer.i'm pretty sure you'll be able to.you know the site, giveaway of the day.they give free versions of licensed commercial oftware.apparently, you download the app, run their activation, then install the app. recently, on a warez site, i downloaded HDDlife.2.9  it came with a registry entry.i ran the entry and voila! HDDlife worked.(the cracks i'd downloaded previously didnt ) it turns out the HDDlife is registered to giveaway of the day .com.i'm assuming that what was done was that the registry entry for the app was extracted from the registry of the posterand included with the application.

so this is my question:how does one go about extracting registry entries? there are lots of apps i'd like to pick from giveawy of the day, but
1) i never use apps that will be unavailable in the event of a system crash
2) i don't connect my working system to the net(who knows what sneaky little trojans are waiting to open the door?)

so this is what i'm looking to do.down load and install apps from giveaway of the day, then locate and extract their registry entries. that way, i'd have a backup of the app in the event of a crash. is it doable? thanks

@oyb

well my understanding of the registry is basically its a way of automating all those INI configurations that vexed us in the days of windows 3.x, as far as apps are concerned (of course, windows settings and machine policies are handled there as well), but the thing is some applications only register initialization files and config data there while other apps keep those settings in the app's program folder and keep activation keys in the registry. however, such apps have a nasty habit of transmogrifying those keys to hexadecimal so extraction is a try-fail affair. but a likely place to root for reg entries is in the hkey-current user-software tree. unfortunately im not familiar with the giveaway site. most of my win appz are form ddl2, some from p2p (try Ares), and a lot from friends still in the cracking biz.

if you are any good with hex, try getting a hex viewer like WinHex and mess around wit  values. or if you can code, get a debugger. it works wonders sometimes.

@jackelony

sorry, jack. these things are posted as discovered. im not so much a regular now on nairaland cos im busy, so i do wot i can. however i may have posted this, but still try it, makes your browsing fater:

Hkey>currentuser>software>microsoft>windows>currentVersion>internetsettings
on the right pane, rightclick and select New>Dword value. name it MaxConnectionsPer1_0server. double click it, select decimal and give it a value of your choice, say 64. now right click again and select New>Dwordvalue. name it MaxConnections PerServer. double click it, select decimal, give it a value twice that of the first Dword entry.
close the registry.

what this does is to make your explorer make more connections to the html and images servers, respectively, than the default values specified by microsoft. any time you access a web page, the browser makes as many connections as you specified, thus speeding up your browsing. however some sites dont allow more than 8 connections.