Registry read error of a user hive with WSH Regread

[Rodrigo Verissimo]

Hi group,

I have the following problem with reading a user registry hive (monitoring
ntbackup log report operations),
when there are no sessions open for the user in question, i get "The system
cannot find the file specified"
Is there a possibility to load the hive without logging the user ? The app
is In VB6 so i can use API if needeed

Thank you

 

[Mark V]

Hi group,

I have the following problem with reading a user registry hive
(monitoring ntbackup log report operations),
when there are no sessions open for the user in question, i get
"The system cannot find the file specified"
Is there a possibility to load the hive without logging the user ?
The app is In VB6 so i can use API if needeed

I don't know the API you want but REG.EXE (v2.0 or later IIRC) can load
a user hive from the command line.
REG LOAD /?
REG UNLOAD /?

But since the ntbackup logfiles are stored on disk, cannot you just
find them within the Profiles trees? Checking for existence, getting
file data/time, read and parse, test, and so on?