User.Dat

[Spidermanag]

Can someone help me please?
I need to view the user.dat file and edit it on a remote computer. How can I do it?

[geeman]

You can't. USER.DAT is used in conjunction with SYSTEM.DAT and neither can be viewed seperatly. Additionally, you can only REMOTLY manipuate regitries using Windows NT on another NT machine. You have to use regedt32. Sorry!!

-Geeman-

[POBrien]

You can:

Open a dos window and navigate to the share on the remote machine. Within the windows directory of the remote machine type:

attrib -r -s user.dat
regedit /R:c:\windows\user.dat > /e \\yourpc\yourshare\user.txt
attrib +r +s user.dat

This action will copy the contents of the remote pc's user.dat file to a new text file on your pc.

(Note* Im at work now and can't remember for sure if the format
regedit /R:c:\windows\user.dat is exactly correct. drop to dos and type regedit for the exact syntax.


Also, Win 95/98 offers the remote registry service which will allow you to access another registry remotely. You must have admin priviledges on the remote PC and also install the remote registry service on both PC (local and remote)