read registry

[mammique]

Hello,

i'm looking for a lightweight way to read the windows regitry. I don't
know windows, so i don't know how it's done. The goal in simply to check
the windows network configuration of a machine from a live-cd, to use
the same parameters on the running live-cd. Do i need wine api and dlls
to do that, or is this the windows registry readable using lower-level
way ? I would prefer not to use wine, then network detection could be
done from ramdisk during boot.

Wating for your ligths :-)

Regards.

Camille.