Remote Registry Service

Description:

Allows remote registry manipulation, for authorized users.

Related Restrict users from accessing the registry from network.

Recommended State:

• Disabled, for security measures.

Default State:

• Win8: Disabled.
• Vista/Win7: Manual.
• WinXP Home: Not available.
• Win2k/WinXP Pro/Win2k3: Automatic

Process Name:

• Win8: svchost.exe -k localService (RemoteRegistry)
• Win7\Vista\Win2k3: svchost.exe -k regsvc (RemoteRegistry)
• WinXP Pro: svchost.exe -k localservice (RemoteRegistry)
• Win2k: regsvc.exe (RemoteRegistry)

Supports:

• None

Depends:

• Remote Procedure Call (RPC) (WinXP+)