program to edit any (inactive) Windows registry file?

I had Windohs 95 installed on an old PC, but a hard disk crash
took out a load of programs. I can no longer boot from this
hard disk, but have a backup on DVD, including the Windows registry.
Now I would like to extract some registry keys (such as program
registrations and passwords).
Is there a program like regedit, which will open any Win9x
registry file, other than the active system.dat and user.dat?

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:42:48 -0700, put finger to
keyboard and composed:

I had Windohs 95 installed on an old PC, but a hard disk crash
took out a load of programs. I can no longer boot from this
hard disk, but have a backup on DVD, including the Windows registry.
Now I would like to extract some registry keys (such as program
registrations and passwords).
Is there a program like regedit, which will open any Win9x
registry file, other than the active system.dat and user.dat?

Use regedit in DOS mode:

Using Registry Editor in Real Mode
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/131352

Assuming your Win95 registry is in the d:\windows directory, then the
following commands will export the relevant files to two text files in
your TEMP directory.

regedit /l:d:\windows\user.dat /e c:\windows\temp\user.txt
regedit /l:d:\windows\system.dat /e c:\windows\temp\system.txt

The above assumes that your CD-ROM driver is loaded by config.sys, and
that autoexec.bat contains mscdex.exe. This will be the case if you
boot from a startup diskette.

Alternatively, you could copy the files to your C: drive in GUI mode
and then run regedit in DOS mode.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Boot in Command Prompt (it does not work in DOS window when you are in
Windows), and type:

regedit /?

You'll see the options, that will allow you to work (in Command Prompt
only, too) with the Registry files other than the active system.dat and
user.dat.

--
Mikhail Zhilin

http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:42:48 -0700, wrote:

I had Windohs 95 installed on an old PC, but a hard disk crash
took out a load of programs. I can no longer boot from this
hard disk, but have a backup on DVD, including the Windows registry.
Now I would like to extract some registry keys (such as program
registrations and passwords).
Is there a program like regedit, which will open any Win9x
registry file, other than the active system.dat and user.dat?

In addition to the methods mentioned in this thread, there is a shareware utility to
do this, named Regdat v.1.3:

http://freenet-homepage.de/h.ulbrich/

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000023756

You can download it for the trial period, which may be as long as you need to use
it.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


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I had Windohs 95 installed on an old PC, but a hard disk crash
took out a load of programs. I can no longer boot from this
hard disk, but have a backup on DVD, including the Windows registry.
Now I would like to extract some registry keys (such as program
registrations and passwords).
Is there a program like regedit, which will open any Win9x
registry file, other than the active system.dat and user.dat?