Is there any other way for accessing .hive files?

sainath · Post by **sainath** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:35 pm

is there any possibility for converting .hive files .reg files or .txt files so that wine can handle it?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:36 am

sainath wrote:is there any possibility for converting .hive files .reg files or .txt files so that wine can handle it?

Only windows can read it's own binary registry files.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:49 am

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:36 AM, vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:

sainath wrote:
is there any possibility for converting .hive files .reg files or .txt files so that wine can handle it?
Only windows can read it's own binary registry files.

Doesn't regedit from windows have the ability to save registry files
in NT4 (text) format?

I know this works with XP. Not sure about vista.

John

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:12 pm

John Drescher wrote:Doesn't regedit from windows have the ability to save registry files in NT4 (text) format?

Not really. Regedit just calls advapi (or ntdll) to load registry. You can try it to make sure but I doubt it will work on Wine.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:32 pm

John Drescher wrote:
Doesn't regedit from windows have the ability to save registry files in NT4 (text) format?
Not really. Regedit just calls advapi (or ntdll) to load registry. You can try it to make sure but I doubt it will work on Wine.

I am sorry. I know my statement was confusing. Maybe I am confused
about the question. I thought the reason for this was the user wanted
to export some part of their windows registry to wine. And I was
suggesting that in windows XP that you can export registry settings as
text. I don't mean that you can run the windows regedit under wine and
expect this to function.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:19 pm

sainath wrote:

is there any possibility for converting .hive files .reg files or .txt files so that wine can handle it?

What you are trying to do can seriously mess up your .wine files.

The first question is why are you trying to export the registry from
Vista and import it into Wine? Is there an application that you cannot
install directly into Wine for some reason?

James McKenzie

sainath · Post by **sainath** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:44 am

Thanks for ur answers.
I have a windows application. I want to install it in wine.
That application contains .hive files.
wine registry is failing to load those files.