Editing windows registry with wine

janoliver · Post by **janoliver** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:39 am

Hi there,

I need to change a key in the registry of a windows xp to be able to login again. So I booted the ubuntu live cd, installed wine and tried to execute the C:\WINDOWS\regedit.exe

The first time I tried, some DLL's weren't found, which are located in C:\WINDOWS\system32. Setting the WINEDLLPATH didn't help, so I just copied the regedit.exe to the system32 folder and executed it with wine.

Unfortunately, the wine-regedit was executed, which only allows me to edit the wine registry located in ~/.wine I think.

How can I run the actual windows regedit.exe or edit the windows registry with the regedit tool bundled with wine?

Thanks for help!

Jan Oliver

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 8:08 am

You can't. Wine creates and works inside its own environment and the registry is stored in a different way.

You could export the Windows registry in Windows to a .reg file, edit that manually and then reimport, but you'd need to be able to boot into Windows to do that.

oiaohm · Post by **oiaohm** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:10 pm

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ << This is what you are looking for janoliver.

binary based registry files would make our debuging of wine issues harder so wine registry files are plain text.