Re: Registry questions
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Date: 09/18/04
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:35:39 +1000
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:38:54 -0400, "George J. Wallace"
<georgejwallace@msn.com> wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers:
>Hi;
> I just added an extra HD to my WinMe machine, partitioned it as 3 drives
>(D, E, F) and installed XP as a dual boot system on D. Now it's time to
>start installing my applications. I want to take a snapshot of the registry
>before and after each install and then run FC (File Compare) on the
>snapshots and keep a running list of what keys were added/altered by each
>program (I've found that alot of apps like NAV and Adobe Reader leave junk
>all over the place when uninstalled/upgraded).
> The question is "Where did the registry go?". I had assumed that XP would
>have its' own registry in D:\Windows but can't find a USER.DAT or SYSTEM.DAT
>anywhere on the D drive. Is NTUSER.DAT the equivalent of USER.DAT? If yes,
>then what's the equivalent of SYSTEM.DAT? I've searched the D drive for
>files containing HKEY_USERS and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE with no luck. Is XP
>relying on the files back in the WinMe partition and if so, am I forever
>stuck with keeping WinMe in order to keep those files?
> Any help/enlightment would be greatly appreciated.
As you suspect, the users' registry hives are stored in
%HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%\NTUSER.DAT. The system hives are in
%SystemRoot%\system32\config. I believe they are SYSTEM, SOFTWARE,
SECURITY, and SAM. You don't want to mess with them. Use REGEDIT
or other registry editing tools.
HKEY_USERS and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE are registry keys, not file names.
The XP installation doesn't know anything about the ME registry - they
are incompatible; otherwise you wouldn't have to re-install your
applications.
-- Michael Bednarek http://mbednarek.com/ "POST NO BILLS"
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