Edit Non-Active Registry File?

[Greg Dunn]

I installed a second hard disk on my computer, configured it as the boot
disk, and reinstalled everything from Windows on up. This has gone well,
except that my new copy of Outlook no longer has the Categories I had
established in the old copy.

I understand, from a little research, that Outlook's Categories are stored
in the registry, under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Categories

But of course, the registry in which *my* old categories are stored is no
longer the active one, though the registry file is still sitting over there
on the old drive. Is there any way I can get at the category entries in
that non-active registry file? If I can even get a look at them, that would
be good enough, since there are only 30 or so.

Thanks

Greg Dunn

P.S. This is a Windows XP registry, not Windows 2000; but I didn't find a
winxp.registry newsgroup.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Run regedt32, then from the Local Machine Hive, choose Registry|Load Hive.
Then navigate to the location of the hive you want to edit/read. Give it
some tempname (doesn't matter what). Then when your done, move the cursor
back to tempname, then Registry|Unload Hive, Registry|Exit

You'll find them in
%windir%\system32\config

the current_user hive is in
%userprofile%\ntuser.dat

The last reg backup files in
%windir%\repair\RegBack

and the original as-installed files in
%windir%\repair

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
|I installed a second hard disk on my computer, configured it as the boot
| disk, and reinstalled everything from Windows on up. This has gone well,
| except that my new copy of Outlook no longer has the Categories I had
| established in the old copy.
|
| I understand, from a little research, that Outlook's Categories are stored
| in the registry, under
|
| HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Categories
|
| But of course, the registry in which *my* old categories are stored is no
| longer the active one, though the registry file is still sitting over
there
| on the old drive. Is there any way I can get at the category entries in
| that non-active registry file? If I can even get a look at them, that
would
| be good enough, since there are only 30 or so.
|
| Thanks
|
| Greg Dunn
|
| P.S. This is a Windows XP registry, not Windows 2000; but I didn't find a
| winxp.registry newsgroup.
|
|