wine users - Jun 2010 - How to import registry of Windows XP backup?

I have a game for Windows where the entire game status is saved in the registry.
The game works good under Wine. After a reinstallation the registry got wiped
out and therefore my game status.
(This game is not important, it could be any program which writes something very
important into the registry which I need to restore)

But I have an entire backup of my old Windows XP installation. Because Win XP
stores registry files under C:\WINDOWS\System32\config\ this backup also
contains my registry and also the game status I need.

So the dumb thing is, I have the registry, know which keys I need to restore my
game status but I don't know how to get the fucking keys out of the
registry? These files are not the .reg files regedit can use for simple import.
These files ARE the registry, but I don't know how to read it.

So I want to know how I can get these keys out of the (non-exported) registry on
my backup and get them into the Wine registry?

Thanks in advance. :-)

Wuzzy wrote:

First and foremost, please, please, please folks, let's be 
professional.  Use of vulgar and derogatory language does not make 
things better, nor will they get your problem solved faster.  They may 
even cause folks to skip messages...
> So I want to know how I can get these keys out of the (non-exported)
registry on my backup and get them into the Wine registry?
>
>   
Since this is a Windows question, you are going to have to research 
this.  Wine does not have this feature, yet, and uses flat file 
registries (like those of Windows95 and Windows98.)   I highly suggest 
using Bing (since it is a Microsoft product) for starters.  This may 
require restoring those registry files and then exporting from them.

James McKenzie

You need to go on some other windows box. Load the registry as a hive
(there is an option in regedit for that), probably only the  SOFTWARE
hive. Then export the keys you want as NT4 format. This will be text
that you can import into wine. To do that you can copy the SOFTWARE
hive to a pen drive if you want.

John