confusion on registry editing

[draboo]

mr easily confused here with this problem:

attempted to merge some settings into registry that i copied and pasted and saved first in notepad and then in word pad,but when i tried to merge,xp said that they were not in the right format(needs binary) saved them as .reg files

how does one go about doing this?

i went and manually edited the registry,but i can see where copying and pasting etc. would save a bunch of time.

thanks once again brad

[krohnjw]

You may have not had the right header in the file. That would be my guess.

[DVNT1]

My initial guess would be that WordPad changed the file format.


Instead of copy/paste reg I normally export it from the reg and then edit it, the merge it as needed.

[krohnjw]

Wordpad adds formatting, notepad doesnt. I have used notepad many times to create REG files to he should be ok there, unless they beefed it up in XP.

[DVNT1]

Originally posted by draboo
...saved first in notepad and then in word pad,but when i tried to merge,xp said that they were not in the right format(needs binary) saved them as .reg files...

Maybe I misunderstood this part, I though you did it sequentially which may have changed the formating. If you tried each separately, then it is probably something else wrong.

[krohnjw]

Oops, sorry I missed the wordpad part, that is my fault

[draboo]

yes i saved them seperately

[BFlurie]

Doesn't XP's reg file header have to be Regedit5 or something?