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General Computer Support / Re: Individual Reg key

« on: July 22, 2014, 01:39:58 pm »

It worked.  You're a weeellll informed man  ..er dog. 

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General Computer Support / Individual Reg key (SOLVED)

« on: July 22, 2014, 11:12:02 am »

I had to Refresh my 8.1 computer.  I had been using Windows Live Mail (12) as my email client.  I understand their "mail rules" are stored in HKU somewhere. [ I had a lot of "customized" rules so I'd really like to recover them. ]

Both in Desktop mode and using WinRE I find the current registry did not save the WLMail key(s).  I tried the "reg" command but couldn't find any hive to load.

After the Refresh I was assigned a new username; "<username>.Toshiba-Laptop."  Naturally this threw me for a loop.

It'll take forever to re-associate everything back to <username> (without the computer name that Refresh tacked on.)

Now I hesitate to restore the last Tweaking Reg backup in fear it may screw everything up.

Finally my question.  Is there a way to access the Tweaking backup .dat files to retrieve only the keys I need?

Thanks so much in advance! 

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General Computer Support / Re: I need to import some registry keys. (SOLVED)

« on: July 18, 2014, 01:11:41 pm »

Dont try to restore the registry from the 8 system to xp, it will crash the system since that is the entire registry.

Instead on the 8 system that has the keys you need just go to the keys in regedit and right click on it and hit export. It will save as a .reg file. Then take that file to the xp system and double click on it and it will get added to the registry

Shane

You were right!    I was wrong.   "I doubt regedit is available." Regedit  was available in 8.1 WRE.

You the man.. er "dog"   

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General Computer Support / I need to import some registry keys. (SOLVED)

« on: July 17, 2014, 03:16:36 pm »

Hi.  First time here.  My Toshiba W8.1 device became unstable.  While I research the best way to refresh/system restore it, I resort to using my XPSP3 laptop. Mainly for email and internet.

I expect to be using XP for an extended period.  I want to transfer Windows Live Mail messages and settings, which are stored in the registry. [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Rules\Mail].  I have backups of all my mail messages but I don't know how to retrieve the registry keys in the 8,1 device from within the WRE tools.  I doubt regedit is available.

I have been using Tweaking,com - Registry Backup v1.9.0 for both devices.  Here's my problem: I have the 8.1 reg backups on a USB drive.  I tried to get TRB to access the files, but it will only "see" the local path to restore.  I draw a blank.   

So is there a way to view and copy the registry keys I need, either with TRB or a third-party utility?

Off topic: this editor is the most feature-laden I've seen. (I've seen a lot since 1981)