registry editing

[Guest Faio Eric]

regedit is a command to edit the registry.

 

My question is, if you have 2 HDD with both windows xp installed and wish to

edit the registry of another HDD, can this be done.

 

The reason for asking is, I have a computer which works fine and another

computer which was infected by a worm virus. I took the HDDrive from the

infected computer, Make it a slave of the good computer and then run the

virus scanner so that it will be cleaned. I then need to edit that infected

HDDrive registry. Can this be done?

 

Thanks in advance

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: registry editing

 

 

"Faio Eric" <erika@tskl.net.ki> wrote in message

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> regedit is a command to edit the registry.

>

> My question is, if you have 2 HDD with both windows xp installed and wish

> to edit the registry of another HDD, can this be done.

>

> The reason for asking is, I have a computer which works fine and another

> computer which was infected by a worm virus. I took the HDDrive from the

> infected computer, Make it a slave of the good computer and then run the

> virus scanner so that it will be cleaned. I then need to edit that

> infected HDDrive registry. Can this be done?

>

> Thanks in advance

 

Yes, you can edit an off-line registry, provided you know

exactly what you're doing. Make a backup of the registry

file before going ahead!

1. Run regedit.exe.

2. Click HKLM.

3. Click File / Load Hive.

4. Open the "System" registry file of your off-line Windows installation.

5. Give the baby a name, e.g. OffLineSystem.

6. Make your changes.

7. Unload the hive.