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Wildstar
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February 18, 2020 at 9:18 pm #2153273

First time poster as I found this egregious and I’m a frequent lurker here at Woody’s place.

Upgraded from Pro 1903 to 1909 today and Remote Registry of all things was running and on automatic (delayed).

This has always been one of the first services I disable on a new build. Perhaps I’m being overly cautious and perhaps Remote Registry has changed over the decades, but the thought of anything or anyone having access to my registry raises a major red flag in my book.

Please check your 1909 builds.

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- AlphaCharlie
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  February 19, 2020 at 12:35 am #2153312
  
  Please explain how to check this, thank you.
  
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- Kirsty
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  February 19, 2020 at 1:31 am #2153320
  
  In Services (run as administrator), find Remote Registry and change StartUp Type to Disabled (in Properties, if right click is greyed out).
  
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  AlphaCharlie
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  March 3, 2020 at 8:10 pm #2176063
  
  Thanks for this info here. At the new Inspiron on !in 10 1909 that I am using right now, the Remote Registry startup type was already set to Disabled. So I am not going in to the registry.
  
  Thanks for the advice here.
  
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- Rick Corbett
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  February 19, 2020 at 4:05 am #2153370
  
  Delayed Start has a Start value of 2 in the registry:
  
  Disabled has a Start value of 4.
  
  An alternative method is to copy/paste the following into Notepad and save it as something like disable_remote_registry.bat.
  
  sc config RemoteRegistry start= disabled reg add "HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetServicesRemoteRegistry" /v "Start" /t REG_DWORD /d "4" /f</pre?
  
  *Right-click* on this new BAT file, choose Run as administrator and accept the UAC prompt then reboot. This will have stopped and disabled the service:
  
  Hope this helps…
  
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- jabeattyauditor
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  February 19, 2020 at 4:16 am #2153374
  
  Wildstar wrote:
  
  This has always been one of the first services I disable on a new build. Perhaps I’m being overly cautious and perhaps Remote Registry has changed over the decades, but the thought of anything or anyone having access to my registry raises a major red flag in my book.
  
  Just a quick note – the Remote Registry is “remote” in that one can edit the registry on another PC when connected to the same network, but not “remote” as in someone on another network can hack your registry using this service.
  
  It can be useful to be able to remotely edit someone’s registry in a business setting; sometimes it’s the fastest route to resolving an issue.
  
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