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
