Survey of Operating Systems, 5e
Survey of Operating Systems, 5e
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ISBN: 9781259618635
Author: Jane Holcombe, Charles Holcombe
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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A “hive” is a permanent portion of the Windows registry that is saved in a registry file.

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Hive:

  • The information stored in the windows registry is divided into several disk files called hives; it includes sam, security, ntuser.dat, software, default, and system.dat.
  • A hive is a logical group of keys, subkeys and values rooted at the top of the registry. It has a set of supporting files about hardware when the operating system user logs in.
  • The hive files are stored in the “SystemRoot\System32\Config” directory and these files will be updated each time whenever the system boots.

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