wine users - Dec 2009 - Editing windows registry with wine

Hi there,

I need to change a key in the registry of a windows xp to be able to login
again. So I booted the ubuntu live cd, installed wine and tried to execute the
C:\WINDOWS\regedit.exe

The first time I tried, some DLL's weren't found, which are located in
C:\WINDOWS\system32. Setting the WINEDLLPATH didn't help, so I just copied
the regedit.exe to the system32 folder and executed it with wine.

Unfortunately, the wine-regedit was executed, which only allows me to edit the
wine registry located in ~/.wine I think.

How can I run the actual windows regedit.exe or edit the windows registry with
the regedit tool bundled with wine?

Thanks for help!

Jan Oliver

You can't. Wine creates and works inside its own environment and the
registry is stored in a different way.

You could export the Windows registry in Windows to a .reg file, edit that
manually and then reimport, but you'd need to be able to boot into Windows
to do that.

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/  << This is what you are looking
for janoliver.

binary based registry files would make our debuging of wine issues harder so
wine registry files are plain text.