"Rube Bumpkin" <Someone@somewhere.world> wrote in message
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>>
>> Thanks Charles & Rube. I'm working on the premis that if 'it' knows this
>> information it must be stored somewhere on the computer and that NIS is
>> designed to 'overlook' the information. So, it may be more of a case of
>> "difficult to do" rather than "can't be done".
>>
>> BTW I'm not being 'naughty' at all. I have a perfectly legit NIS
>> installed!
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Bill Ridgeway
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> Process Monitor, from Sysinternals, might help. You should be able to
> track all registry accesses from your processes. You could boot without
> NIS, start Process Monitor, then start NIS, looking at all of the
> accesses.
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> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...ssmonitor.mspx
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> RB
>
> P.S. I've always wondered myself, "How do it know?"

OK so let's run at this question from a different angle. If you had to keep
information about a piece of software where would you hide it?

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway