Exporting registry file?

[Sammy]

Hi!
If a want to save a registry key with it`s values i type a command "regedit /e c:\file.txt "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\... etc.
This works fine in my Windows NT-4, but not in my Windows-95. What can i do to get the same thing done in NT4?

Brgds, Sammy

[Louis]

If you type your command like your message you have a little mistake. The good syntax is:

regedit /l:c:\windows\system.dat /e: c:\file.txt HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...

Change /l by /r if you want to backup user.dat

[Rocker6]

This will not work either...

Windows NT uses a different format for the registry.

The Windows NT registry and event log are stored are in the c:\winnt\system32\config folder by default. To back this up, Microsoft suggests generating an emergency repair disk (ERD) using rdisk.exe, but this will not work with too large of a registry. The reason for this is that this utility cannot span floppy disks. So, if you have a large registry, there may not be a way to do this without either microsoft backup, or a thirdparty util.


Let me know if you find any more info.


Thanks!



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