regedit changes are ignored

yaturner · Post by **yaturner** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:44 am

This is in relation to a printer problem I am having, but when I edit the registry using

regedit

or

wine regedit /d "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows"

the changes never get saved, the key is there the next type I look in regedit, any ideas?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:53 am

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:44 AM, yaturner <[email protected]> wrote:

This is in relation to a printer problem I am having, but when I edit the registry using

regedit

or

wine regedit /d "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows"

the changes never get saved, the key is there the next type I look in regedit, any ideas?

It is automatically being restored, when wineboot is run. Why are you
deleting that key?

yaturner · Post by **yaturner** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:59 am

The key that I am actually trying to delete is for a bogus printer that I no longer have on my system but wine keeps trying to use as my only printer. This leads to my next question

where does wineboot restore the settings from?

I have already checked cups and there is no entry for the old printer so I am trying to manually delete it from wine's registry

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:04 pm

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM, yaturner <[email protected]> wrote:

The key that I am actually trying to delete is for a bogus printer that I no longer have on my system but wine keeps trying to use as my only printer. This leads to my next question

where does wineboot restore the settings from?

I have already checked cups and there is no entry for the old printer so I am trying to manually delete it from wine's registry

From wine.inf. You might try starting with a fresh .wine, if you've
got a lot of cruft, that may be your problem.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:16 pm

Austin English wrote:

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM, yaturner <[email protected]> wrote:

The key that I am actually trying to delete is for a bogus printer that I no longer have on my system but wine keeps trying to use as my only printer. This leads to my next question

where does wineboot restore the settings from?

I have already checked cups and there is no entry for the old printer so I am trying to manually delete it from wine's registry

From wine.inf. You might try starting with a fresh .wine, if you've
got a lot of cruft, that may be your problem.

Austin and yaturner:

Fresh .wine == rm -rf ~/.wine

However, you just might not want to do this. Backup your current .wine
by using the move (mv) command instead. This allows you to restore the
.wine directory if a fresh .wine does not fix the problem.

code:
mv .wine{,.backup}

restore old .wine
code:
rm -rf .wine
mv .wine.backup .wine

Stop and start wineserver:
wineserver -k
winserver (or) start any Windows program with Wine.

James McKenzie