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XP Registry.
Posted by M.I.5¾ on May 29th, 2008


Can someone please remind me of the names of and where Windows XP stores its
registry files?

Im currently trying to run down an obscure problem where the registry is
being altered whenever the PC is booted, rebooted or awakened.


Posted by R. McCarty on May 29th, 2008


Primary Hives are at \Windows\System32\Config, and the Profile
specific data is located in each \Documents & Settings\User folder
as NTUser.Dat

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Posted by ju.c on May 29th, 2008


Registry Hive file locations are stored here:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\hivelist]


To find changes use Regshot, an open-source(GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product.

Old Homepage: http://regshot.blog.googlepages.com/regshot
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=215449


Additional info:

Windows registry information for advanced users
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986

Windows Registry
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry


ju.c


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