I need to access the register on my first winXP installation. How do I do that?

[Guest]

I'm sure that many of us tryed to clean up a little too much on unnessasary things in the register. I did it and of course windows wont start. I know exactly what I did wrong and now I want to restore it. I have installed a new version of windows xp in the c:\win cataloge, my old version is in c:\windows
The problem is how can I access the old register when operation in the second windows system? Is there any other way that I can access the register

Any advice is helpful

Thanks a lot!

Andreas

 

[Guest]

I strongly recommend that you don't bother trying. There comes a time to call it a day

Back the entire system up, then format the hard disk and do a clean reinstall of the system

That's the way to get back to a healthy system

And resist the temptation to muck around with the registry in future, unless you make a backup first and are familiar with disaster recovery procedures

Regards

Cecil Ward.

 

[Guest]

I know... it's just that there has got to be a way to access the register from outside. And there must be a good program to do it with?
I so sick of reinstalling Windows... Am gonna make a ghost image this time of my hard drive though
Thanks for replying but I can reasure you that I will definately not stop working the register. The saying goes, win some, loose some... heh

Thanks again.

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

When running regedit in the other build, highlight HKLM then under the FIle
menu use Load Hive and navigate to the other system's system32\config
and select the System file. Give a name for the mount point.
When done be absolutely certain that you remember to use Unload Hive
in the File menu before you close out of the reg tool