Re: Registry questions
From: George J. Wallace (georgejwallace_at_msn.com)
Date: 09/19/04
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:23:21 -0400
I want to thank all of you very much for taking the time to answer my
questions! I'd been holding off installing anything until I was sure I
could keep track of what was being added to the registry. Thank you for the
enlightenment.
"George J. Wallace" <georgejwallace@msn.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> --
> George J. Wallace
>
>
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