where is the registry stored?

[igowerf]

I was wondering which file is the registry? Is it system.dat? What is user.dat? It looks like it contains information on recently installed/run applications. Thanks.

 

[paruhd0x]

I'm not sure about what file... But I do know... you go to run and open Regedit and you can view the registry entrys on everything.

 

[1KrazyFool]

Under win9x, it's both user.dat and system.dat. User.dat supplies the info stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. System.dat is the rest. Same is true for NT, however user.dat is specific to the user logged in and is stored in their home folder. It also carries the name ntuser.dat.

 

[igowerf]

Awesome. So if I were to manually backup my registry, those are the only two files I would have to worry about? Thanks.

 

[1KrazyFool]

If you have Win98/ME, there are backups made every first bootup of the day. Check out the programs scanregw.exe and scanreg.exe. Very handy tools.

 

[igowerf]

Do you know where I can find the command line arguements for scanregw? In my CurrentVersion/Run directory, it shows scanregw.exe /autorun at startup. Are there any others? Thanks a lot.