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Services Utility: Remote Registry Service | Display Name (?): | Remote Registry | | Short Name (?): | RemoteRegistry | | Executable (?): | svchost.exe | | Library (?): | regsvc.dll | | Depends On (?): | Remote Procedure Call (RPC) | | Supports (?): | None. | | Description (?): | Enables remote users to modify registry settings on this computer. If this service is stopped, the registry can be modified only by users on this computer. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start. | | OS (?): | 2000 Professional, XP Home/Professional, Vista Home/Business, 2000 Server, Server 2003, Vista Server | | Startup (?): | | Default | Home | Workstation | Server | Minimal | Tweaked | Automatic | | Automatic | Disabled | Automatic | Automatic | Disabled | Disabled | Disabled | |
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The remote registry service is used in receiving connections from a remote system so that the host computer's registry can be read and modified. This is mostly only used in remote administration types programs that would be used on business and corporate networks. This service is a very severe security hole on all systems on a network of any sort, especially those on the Internet. Any user with remote access to your computer can modify your system's registry, which is Windows' setting databse, just by using your username and password, which can be guessed if given enough attempts. In any case you should definitely disable this service unless you know that you use it. If you do have a need for it then you should really be sure that you properly secure the computers that have it enabled. Set it to automatic if you need it. |
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. And be one traveler, long I stood. And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair. And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay. In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost: Road Not Taken (1962) |
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