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How to regedit outside Win2000
Name: Harry Date: July 3, 2002 at 05:09:38 Pacific
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I had a virus yesterday (Worm_yaha.e), which changes the registry. I fixed it by renaming regedit.exe to regedit.com and was able to repair the values. But I was wondering, is there a way to change the reg outsinde Windows? I booted from the bootdisks (takes ages) but I couldn't find a program to edit the reg. I am just curious.
Uh...have you guys missed the Remote Registry Service available and probably even enabled if you didn't shut it off in Admin Tools -> Services. It's description says it all, "Allows remote registry manipulation." Now gieven that don't ask me what lese you need in order to actually do this as I have never tried.
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Response Number 5
Name: Harry Date: July 3, 2002 at 08:23:10 Pacific
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Well, I asked this for the case the system wouldn't boot after a virus or reg problems. Also I wondered if Win 2000 has a registry checker like Win ME has.
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Response Number 6
Name: Mohamed Date: July 3, 2002 at 12:21:48 Pacific
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Check out this site: http://www.winternals.com, they have a very usefull utility called ERD Commander 2002. I will allow you to boot from a CD edit the registry, start and stop services, reset forgotten passwords and a whole lot more. This saved me a lot of headache when i had unbootable machines. Good luck.
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