[dba-Tech] Another Registry question

Andy Lacey andy at minstersystems.co.uk
Mon Aug 9 06:03:14 CDT 2004


Done it! Success. Glad you mentioned that the user must not be logged-on. It
had failed before but that was the reason (doh!).

Many thanks esp to Stuart, Erwin and Drew on this.

--
Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Another Registry question
Date: 09/08/04 08:51

>
> Yes you can, if you are admin and the user is not logged on.
>
> Pay attention if you are using roaming profiles.
> The user may not be logged on to any computer.
> I'm also not sure if roaming profiles will overwrite the localy stored
> ntuser.dat when you change it on the server profile folder only.
>
> Erwin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 8:40 AM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Another Registry question
>
> I did wonder, but answers to previous question conflicted on that point.
> Thanks Stuart. I presume that if I use Regedt32 from another W2K machine
> I can still navigate to a user's folder and load their hive.
>
> -- Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
> > McLachlan
> > Sent: 08 August 2004 23:10
> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Another Registry question
> >
> >
> > On 8 Aug 2004 at 22:07, Andy Lacey wrote:
> >
> > > If HKEY_USERS contains all the reg info for all users
> >
> > It doesn't
> >
> > If you want to work with another users reg info, you need to
> > explicitly load it (their %SYSTEMROOTDocuments and
> > SettingsUsernameNTUSER.DAT file) into REGEDT32 using  the "Load
> > Hive" menu item.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  --
> > Stuart
> >
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