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Registry and Control Panel on D:\

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by dfields 1 view

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Problem: Your Windows NT Workstation boots up to logon and you receive an error about too many characters in username. You also learned that a curious fellow clicked on a reg file and changed the Computer Name.

In a flash of genius, you remove the hard drive and install it on another workstation as the D:\ with the intention of editing the registry. You open regedit on D:\ and lo and behold it displays the registry of the host computer!

You say to yourself "I'll just open the Control Panel applet D:\winnt\system32\ncpa.cpl" and change the computer name. But wait! That's controlling the network properties of the Host computer!

Question: How do SELECTIVELY load a registry into regedit (or regedt32) and how do you control Control Panel applets?

Dean

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by gryph

Hi Dean
Why not pull the temprary drive hosting computer from the domain, disconnect the primary drive and then do your registry editing. Of course, this would require a local administrator password.

HTH,
Gryph

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