On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Martin Bammer wrote:
When I remove the Enum-key under hkey_local_machine then Windows redetects all hardware. So a reinstall would not be needed. Wine has a regedit. But I don't know how to tell wine that it uses the registry from the installed windows.
For sure it would not be needed, but as for Wines regedit I am not sure. AFAIK, it can only read NT-system registry, but not write it.
Would be a nice "recovery" feature for Linux to be able to edit windows registries, because a defective registry is often a problem in windows...
You can always try using Offline NT Password & Registry Editor. It uses console UI and is more of command line editing, but whatever [1].
BTW, you or someone else can try merging both the ntreg library [1] and Wine registry editor code to make a GUI tool to suffice your needs. I hope there would be no license [2] collisions.
[1] http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ [2] http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/COPYING.txt