My friend and I developed a program for school a while back that cleans out a computer (registry, cache, cookies, etc...). What we're trying to do now though is to get it to work on a system that is not booted. So I can take out the hard drive of said computer, hook it up externally to another computer with our program on it, and have it clean the installation on that drive.
Now, clearing the cookies and cache is not problem, but where my problem lies is in cleaning the registry. How do I look in the ntuser.dat file and figure out what the values are? Mostly, we just want to look in the \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsof\WIndows\CurrentVersion\Run and RunOnce paths and clean out any unnecessary program links that like to reside there, such as for spyware and the such, and remove them. We're having trouble figuring out how to appropriately edit this file and how to even read it in the first place.
Any suggestions or tools that you may know of?
Now, clearing the cookies and cache is not problem, but where my problem lies is in cleaning the registry. How do I look in the ntuser.dat file and figure out what the values are? Mostly, we just want to look in the \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsof\WIndows\CurrentVersion\Run and RunOnce paths and clean out any unnecessary program links that like to reside there, such as for spyware and the such, and remove them. We're having trouble figuring out how to appropriately edit this file and how to even read it in the first place.
Any suggestions or tools that you may know of?
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