Retrieving Screensaver Text

[Bart]

Hi All,
I used the marquee screensaver in XP and typed my weekly schedule in text to
have it scroll by as a reminder to me. Then my motherboard died and now I
have a new computer (XP) with my old harddrive as a slave. Is there any way
to retrieve the text from my old harddrive?
Any help is appreciated,
Bart

 

[Elmo]

Hi All,
I used the marquee screen saver in XP and typed my weekly schedule in text to
have it scroll by as a reminder to me. Then my motherboard died and now I
have a new computer (XP) with my old hard drive as a slave. Is there any way
to retrieve the text from my old hard drive?
Any help is appreciated,
Bart

Edit a file named Control.ini in the C:\Windows folder.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Bart,

Yes. Load the user hive (NTUSER.DAT) from the slaved drive, and export the following key:

HKEY_USERS \ <Hive Name> \ Control Panel\Screen Saver.Marquee

"Load Hive" - Examples:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_adv_reg_editing.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...elp/967e371b-40f8-4562-ac7c-91e8f251d65b.mspx
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/peboot.htm

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi All,
I used the marquee screensaver in XP and typed my weekly schedule in text to
have it scroll by as a reminder to me. Then my motherboard died and now I
have a new computer (XP) with my old harddrive as a slave. Is there any way
to retrieve the text from my old harddrive?
Any help is appreciated,
Bart

 

[Kelly]

What a great use! Thanks for sharing.

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

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