Edit a saved registry

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In article <cokais$30e9$1@custnews.inweb.co.uk>,
tim@get.rid.of.this.the-sampsons.co.uk says...
> Hi
>
> I saved my old Windows 98 registry files before upgrading to XP. I have
> a game that stores the scores, etc in the registry and I would like to
> get the registry keys from the saved Windows 98 registry and import them
> into my current XP registry.
>
> Can this be done and if so how?
>
> Thanks
> Tim
>
A program called Registry Workshop can be located at
http://www.torchsoft.com/index.html
You can open any file of .reg type. You can check the data just as if
you were in regedit. If all is the way you want it. Then just export
what you want, exit Registry Workshop, and double click on the export
reg files.
Dave

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.registry (More info?)

Hi,
run Regedit,click "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" first,then chose "File"--"Load Config
Unit"

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"Tim Sampson" <tim@get.rid.of.this.the-sampsons.co.uk>
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> David Smith wrote:
>
> > A program called Registry Workshop can be located at
> > http://www.torchsoft.com/index.html
> > You can open any file of .reg type. You can check the data just as if
> > you were in regedit. If all is the way you want it. Then just export
> > what you want, exit Registry Workshop, and double click on the export
> > reg files.
> > Dave
>
> It's not a .reg file, it's a saved copy of the Windows 98 registry, ie
> SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT.
>
> As it happens though, I managed to copy the files to a redundant PC and
> used regedit in DOS to convert the registry to a text file.
> Unfortunately, the data that I thought was in their wasn't!
>
> Cheers
> Tim