Error Loading Ntuser.dll
Version Translate Topic gatts.casca Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 16 July 2009 Status: Offline Points: 16 Post Options Post Reply Quotegatts.casca Report Post Thanks(0) QuoteReply Topic: regedit question - unable to load hive errorPosted: 16 July 2009 at 11:13pm Hi all,I have a generic question. What are the likely causes if regedit fails to load a hive? I get the cannot load hive error. I realize the hive is corrupted, but... is there some sort of deeper explanation? I am able to access the hive using 3rd party software... wondering if there's something i can add/fix so that i can load the hive for easier viewing/fixing.TIA molotov Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 04 October 2006 Status: Offline Points: 17526 Post Options Post Reply Quotemolotov Report Post Thanks(0) QuoteReply Posted: 17 July 2009 at 3:37am Hi gatts.casca,Perhaps the third-party software has more tolerance for "non-conforming" hives, or it may be able to somehow "repair" them when loading. If you know third-party software will load the hive, is there some reason you are not able to use the third-party software to do the work you need, in the first place?Have you tried opening (a copy of) the hive on a newer version of Windows? Daily affirmation: net helpmsg 4006 gatts.casca Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 16 July 2009 Status: Offline Points: 16 Post Options Post Reply Quotegatts.casca Report Post Thanks(0) QuoteReply Posted: 17 July 2009 at 5:08am Thanks for the quick reply, molotov.1) What do you mean by a "non-conforming" hive?2) I am able to use the 3rd party software to do the work I need, but it is not user friendly and easy to work with. I will explain below after fully responding.3) The hive is from Windows XP Home, and I have tried opening it using regedit on Win XP Pro, but not on any versions of Vista.Explanation of situation:Friend messed with registry, not sure what she deleted from it. On subsequent boot, received BSOD STOP error 0x00000051. After showing me, I used my XP disk to get into Recovery Console, which prompted me for an Admin password
Martin Brinkmann on March 12, 2008 in Windows - Last Update:October 5, 2015 9When you make changes to the Windows Registry you normally can only make them for all users or the user account that is currently logged in. But what if you want to make changes to the Registry of another user of the system?It should be clear that you can only do so if you have the proper rights on the system, but if you do, you can easily load the Registry information of any other user in the Windows Registry editor to modify preferences http://forum.sysinternals.com/regedit-question-unable-to-load-hive-error_topic19671.html there.It is actually easy to load other Registry hives using the built-in Registry editor of the system. Let me show you how that is done.First thing you need to do is start the editor. You do that by bringing up the run box with the keyboard shortcut Windows-R, typing regedit and tapping on the enter key afterwards.Note that you may http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/12/windows-tip-edit-user-registry-of-other-users/ get a UAC prompt depending on security settings and the version of Windows that you are running which you need to accept.Mark the HKEY_USERS folder in the Registry and select File > Load Hive from the menu at the top. Note that the Load Hive option may be grayed out if you have selected a different Registry root folder.The default directory that opens is the directory of the user who is currently logged in. You need to browse to the user directory of the user account that you want to modify the Registry for. Those accounts are listed under the Documents and Settings folder in Windows Vista or the users folder if you are running Windows 7 or newer versions of the Windows operating system.Open the folder and look for the file ntuser.data. The file is hidden by default and you may need to enable the display of hidden files or folders on your system before you can see and select the file.Double-click on the file afterwards which loads it in the Registry editor as a subfolder of the HKEY_USERS
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