Windows ‘File Recovery’ series : Part 6 Reading/Editing The Windows Registry From Outside of Windows
Posted on May 14th, 2012 by James Litten
Windows ‘File Recovery’ series
Part 6 Reading/Editing The Windows Registry From Outside of Windows
DISCLAIMER: These examples use techniques that I actually employ in the real world to deal with real problems. They might be wrong or dangerous. They might be inefficient. If you try them yourself, it might cause damage or irreparable loss. I take no responsibility for anything you do based on my examples or the information that I provide here.In this series we’ll look at some real world examples of disastrous situations salvaged and made better again.
Caution
Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data on the computer.
Caution
Do not edit the registry directly unless you have no alternative. These techniques bypasses standard safeguards, allowing settings that can degrade performance, damage your system, or even require you to reinstall Windows. If you must edit the registry directly, back it up first.
Most of the time you can use standard registry editing tools on a Windows computer that cannot boot into Windows.
If you are able to boot the machine into Safe Mode with Command Prompt then you can use the reg command
Reg Command
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490984.aspx
Recovery Console Command prompt on Windows Vista / 7
You can run regedit.exe.
You can also use the reg.exe command.
Windows 8 Startup Repair Command Prompt
You can run regedit.exe.
You can also use the reg.exe command.
I’m sure that there are other ways. Computers are always full of new surprises when it comes to breaking them. Then there is Windows XP
Recovery Console Command prompt in Windows XP has no reg or regedit command.
Using chntpw as a Windows registry editor
Anyone who repairs consumer computers on a regular basis comes across this scenario sooner or later.Client has a Windows XP computer with a problem that can be easily repaired from the XP Recovery Console. You proceed to boot into XP Recovery Console and ask the client “Is there an administrator password to this machine?” and they respond with something like “I don’t think so…”.
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