Cannot Load Ntuser.dat.log Error While Loading Hive
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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
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be clear that you can only do so if you have the proper rights on the edit registry for another user windows 7 system, but if you do, you can easily load the Registry information of any other user in the Windows Registry editor to modify preferences load hive greyed out 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
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the run box with the keyboard shortcut Windows-R, typing regedit and tapping on the enter key afterwards.Note that you may 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
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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 folder there. You can then make changes to the Registry like you would normally do.SummaryArticle NameWindows Tip: Edit User Registry of other usersDescriptionThe guide walks you through the steps of loading Registry information of other user accounts on Windows machines to edit them remotely.Author Martin Brinkmann Please share this article About Martin Brinkmann Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand.You can follow Martin on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ View all posts by Martin Brinkmann → Filed under: Windows tips You are here: Home > Windows > Windows Tip: Edit User Registry of other user
You Set Default User Profile Registry Settings ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Chad Schultz - MSFTApril 25, 201222 0 0 0 This tip is for Windows 2000 and up. Instructions for Windows NT 4.0 can be found at; http://support.microsoft.com/kb/146050. The following how to run a logon script one time when a new user logs on windows 7 instructions are based on Windows 7. The steps may be different in other versions of
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Windows. Since the instructions in this post will show how to edit the Windows registry I will post the standard Microsoft Support disclaimer. Important: hkey_users This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/12/windows-tip-edit-user-registry-of-other-users/ back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 322756 How to back up and restore the registry in Windows. * For Windows 7, follow the following instructions; http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Back-up-the-registry. Okay, now with that out of the way we can get to editing https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/chad/2012/04/25/tip-49-how-do-you-set-default-user-profile-registry-settings/ the registry to make Windows do what we want. To make sure every new profile created on a machine gets specific user settings we will need to change the registry settings that are used to build all new profiles. The trick is first to understand where these default settings come from. Then when we know where they come from we need to be able to edit them and save them. Once that is done all new profiles will be created with whatever settings we want. The location of where new profiles copy their user registry settings is located on the file system at %SystemDrive%\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT in Windows 7 and Windows Vista, in Windows XP it is located at %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\Default User\NTUSER.DAT. Now that we know what file is copied to create all new profile user registry settings we just need a way to edit the settings. Well there’s a tool for that, it’s called Regedit.exe. The trick with editing the default user profile registry settings is to first know that it is not available in Regedit.exe by default. We will need to load the NTUSER.DAT file into Regedit.exe to be able to edit the settings. Open Regedit.exe by going to Start and typing Regedit, then right-click the search result and select Run as administrator. If you are currently logged on with a non-administrator the User Account Control box will allo
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: http://forum.sysinternals.com/regedit-question-unable-to-load-hive-error_topic19671.html 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 windows 7 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 cannot load ntuser.dat.log 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, but unfortunately she believes she never set one. Whatever the case, I downloaded Petter Nordahl's Offline NT Password & Registry Editor (http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/) and created a boot cd, which allow