Registry

[Sanford Aranoff]

I exported parts of the registry into files like LOCAL_MACHINE.reg. I
can view them with Notepad. I would like to edit this file to get the
settings for a particular program. I tried this, and created a new reg
file. Regedit would not accept it. Is there any way other than manually
adding each setting in regedit?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

I exported parts of the registry into files like LOCAL_MACHINE.reg. I
can view them with Notepad. I would like to edit this file to get the
settings for a particular program. I tried this, and created a new reg
file. Regedit would not accept it. Is there any way other than manually
adding each setting in regedit?

It might be a security program blocking the Registry change it needs to
make. A few, but not all, of the programs now doing this are:
Ad-aware's Ad-Watch
IBM Access Connections
McAfee VirusScan and/or Antispyware
Norton AV
Spyware Blaster
Spybot> Tools> IE Tweaks
Spybot- Teatimer
Spysweeper
Spyware Doctor
Windows Defender
Zone Alarm (free) 6.5 Reported to be fixed in later versions.

In the case of Zone Alarm 6.5 or Norton 2007 it actually has to be
uninstalled. Make sure the Windows Firewall is turned on until you
reinstall Zone Alarm.

Boot into Safe Mode with Networking and try the change.