suppose you booted partition D

[Guest]

Suppose you booted partition D instead of C, then decided to install an
application on D, would the apps registry settings install to partition D or
C?

 

[Dave Patrick]

The registry is always located in the;

%systemroot%\system32\config\

directory.

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| Suppose you booted partition D instead of C, then decided to install an
| application on D, would the apps registry settings install to partition D
or
| C?

 

[Guest]

Let me put it this way, when _installing_ an application, are the registry
settings always put in the "C" Registry?
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[Dave Patrick]

There's no such thing.

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| Let me put it this way, when _installing_ an application, are the registry
| settings always put in the "C" Registry?

 

[Guest]

I mean, when _installing_ an application, are the registry
settings always put in the "C" drive/partition Registry?

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

Suppose you booted partition D instead of C, then decided to install
an application on D, would the apps registry settings install to
partition D or C?

Your question is very confusing, so I suspect you may be confused about how
this works.

You can't boot a partition, you can only boot an operating system. If you
have a system with a single operating system installed (Windows XP) on drive
C: but also have a second partition D:, there's no operating system on D:
and it can't be booted. When you install an application, its setting go into
*the* registry (there's only one for Windows XP) and it's on the drive where
Windows is installed--normally on C:.

On the other hand, if you have created a dual-boot machine with two
operating systems installed, one on C: and one on D:, then you can boot
either operating system.

In that dual-boot scenario, if you boot from the operating system on D: and
it's an operating system that uses a registry (not all operating systems do)
then an application installed under that operating system will put its
settings on D:

 

[Dave Patrick]

There's only one registry for the operating system. The hive files for the
system are located in;
%systemroot%\system32\config\

the user hive is located in the user profile;
%userprofile%\ntuser.dat

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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|I mean, when _installing_ an application, are the registry
| settings always put in the "C" drive/partition Registry?