Where is the registry??

[dancer]

I'm curious, I'm looking at the contents of drive c with OS on it
and wondering which file (or folder) contains the registry.

Thanks

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

Look in the file %systemroot%\system32\config. This files such as software
and system are the registry hives. A hive is a portion of the registry
loaded from a file.

The user hive is loaded from the ntuser.dat file in each user's file profile
as they log in.

Hope this helps

Oli