The ilustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 7.0 and the screen shots were created in Adobe Photoshop 4.0 by Robert Romano. This colophon was written by CLairemarie Fisher O'Leary. The animal featured on the cover of Managing the Windows NT Registry is a female or juvenile orangutan. Ancient legend has it that orangutans have the ability to speak, but choose not to because they are afraid that if humans find out, they will put the orangutans to work. Orangutans are native to the forests of Borneo and Sumatra.
Male adults have long beards and mustaches, and highly developed cheek pads and throat pouches.
The throat pouches are used as resonators for mating calls and calls to mark territory. It becomes well developed in trumpet players, bass singers, and Muslim prayer callers. These great apes are almost completely arboreal. They move by swinging from one tree branch to the next, and descend to the ground only when there is no branch to swing to, and occasionally to gather branches for building sleeping nests. Because of their method of locomotion, orangutan arms are very strong and long, measuring up to 7.8 feet when outspread and reaching to the ankles when stranding upright.