From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19140af19dfa6e01 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11174e,acfad2f7f67e34e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11174e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-25 10:44:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,alt.os.development Subject: Re: Time Taken to Boot References: <1127954.kcBZz6amlf@linux1.krischik.com> <3F60E747.40805@attbi.com> <1557617.vUiuI5kIPQ@linux1.krischik.com> <3F6F1A93.50709@attbi.com> <2q30nv4fain641rin9dia3onjr7ut01our@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:29:44 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1064510960 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:29:20 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:29:20 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42913 alt.os.development:38730 Date: 2003-09-25T13:29:44-04:00 List-Id: Maxim S. Shatskih wrote: >>A large percentage of windows boot time is reading and parsing the >>registry. > > No. I have listed the causes for slow Windows boot. > >>Which brings up the issue that the windows registry is one >>of the biggest problems with security in Windows. > > Sorry, how the boot speed is connected with security? Registry keys are > protected by ACLs. > You cannot achieve better protection with files. The problem as I see it, is nobody makes use of that security! Almost every week, my spyware software is telling me I have gator installed. This stupid thing is thanks to the stupid security around ActiveX and the way registry entries are permitted to be changed. If you set it to "prompt", then you're bugged constantly, including for plugins for Adobe (to read PDF files). If you disable it, then Adobe's plugin doesn't run (I mean, at least separate plugins you have installed vs the web download-on-the-fly ActiveX crap). In XP, I set up my family as unpriviledged users (whatever that was named), initially. But in the end, I had to give in and make my wife and kids administrator, because they couldn't do the things they needed to do. Sigh. So why bother putting a security layer in place, Microsoft, if you're not going to plan out a decent design of roles and use of the system!?!?!? -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg