From: John Cuccia 

Neither have I.  I just did a quick check of one of our W2K servers and the
Policies\Explorer\Run keys weren't there,

Of course that doesn't mean anything except that they did not exist on that
particular machine.  I wonder if Rich could tell us if they are valid reg
entries?


On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 05:58:19 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>the policies keys are the ones I've never seen listed before.
>
>Geo.
>
>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:45:06 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
>>
>> >It turns out that W2K has a "feature" not shared by
any other MS O/S
>> >
>> >-- it launches any program in any subkey of (at least) six keys:
>> >HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run
>> >HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
>> >HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
>> >HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run
>> >HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
>> >HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
>>
>> I don't think the above is true. I vaguely recall W95 and NT4 having
>> those registry keys (except maybe the first one). XP definitely has
>> them.
>>
>>
>> >This would simply be a curiosity except that I can't find a single
>> >third party utility (other than the Silent Runners script) that
>> >identifies programs located in such subkeys.
>>
>> I don't think this is true either. I believe they are exposed by (at
>> least) TweakUI and I know I've seen other utilities report them.
>>
>>
>

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