winternals erd commander 2005 Manuel D’Utilisation

User’s Guide

 

Winternals Software

 

 

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If you are running a utility that accesses the registry of the system being 

repaired you will be unable to replace the Registry hives. Utilities that access 

the Registry include Regedit, Explorer, Service and Driver Manager, System 

Information, and Event Log Viewer.  

ERD Commander 2005 includes special versions of several utilities to comply 

with Microsoft licensing requirements, and to provide interfaces that are 

intuitive in its repair environment. For example, the Windows Regedit utility 

would only allow you to edit the ERD Commander 2005 Registry, whereas 

ERD Commander 2005 Regedit allows you to edit the Registry of the 

installation that you wish to repair.  

When you use Regedit, ERD Commander 2005 attempts to load the registry 

hives (files) that make up the registry keys that you are familiar with. The 

Logon application informs you if it cannot load a hive, and those that it cannot 

load result in empty registry keys within Regedit and possibly limitations to 

the functionality of other ERD Commander 2005 applications. Registry hives 

reside in %systemroot%\system32\config and cannot be loaded if they are 

either missing or corrupt. The correspondence between hives and their 

Registry keys is as follows: