Need a short information about "regedit" and REGEDIT4

[B. Dietrich]

Hi, i never really used wine, but now i want to run Steuer-Spar-Erklärung (German Windows tax program) on Linux Peppermint.

Someone told me to write some changes via REDEDIT4 in the registry.
But my system doesn't accept REGEDIT4, only regedit works.
But there, i cannot find [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides]
No DllOverrides in the Wine folder.

You can find the tipps in the AppDB under "Steuer-Spar-Erklärung" - Notes.

First I thought that regedit is from an older wine-version, and REGEDIT4 is the newer one.
But in the WineHQ-Wiki, i only found "regedit".

Can you help me?

B. Dietrich

[dimesio]

The program to edit the registry is regedit.exe in both Wine and Windows. "REGEDIT4" merely refers to version 4 of regedit; it is not a command.

If a registry key doesn't exist you can create it. However, it's much easier to add DLL overrides using winecfg.

[lahmbi5678]

The idea of the mentioned appdb howto is to create a text file (call it e.g. "reg.txt"), that begins with "REGEDIT4" (without the quotation marks), followed by the registry keys, that are to be merged into registry. You can simply copy/paste the text from the appdb, the text files to be created in that howto are bounded by the "---...---" lines (exclusive). Then you can simply run a command like e.g. "regedit reg.txt".