K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid).
Simplicity is the idea here. I mean... All of the settings are easy to do, and easy to understand, right?

The difficulty comes in remembering the meaning of everything, and the location, etc.


The average user can understand these things, you just have to put it in their language. That's what I'm doing with this.


The "project" as it is, is going to be based at Unerror. I do not know whether it will be a single thread, it's own forum, whatever. We'll see where it goes, and how it grows.

I have borrowed from a few sources in this, and am awaiting their permission before I publish anything, just to avoid any copyright issues. Proper credit has to be given, and I am certainly not doing this for any benefit to myself, other than an excuse to spend more time at the computer

The biggest impedance to this project is the fact that I am a shitty writer


ByteWrangler - Thank you for the link, I will be checking it out. Local services are a large part of local security.

Hesperus - I have considered that issue, and I am going to devote a section to that type of migration. The "Starting point" has been the most difficult part of this project, as there is no "default" confiuguration anymore. OEM installations differ greatly nowadays, and very few people actually do a full retail installation.

Still not entirely sure how I am going to work everything out, and it will be a while before a final draft is done, but I have organized most of it, and have been doing fill work. I never realized how long it takes to write out every damn MMC setting that I need them to make in an organized manner, especially given the fact that I cannot rely on "defaults." I actually have to specify what everythign should be. God help them if they accidently set their machine to Crash on Audit Failure... How many "Average" users can boot up as an admin and change that registry key back?...

Thank you for the suggestions, and I look forward to releasing this in a timely manner (Hopefully before Vista is outdated...)