From: "Geo." 

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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