How to conver the windows registry to wine registries?

[David Lee Lambert]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, John Nelson wrote:

> This is a more difficult problem than it appears.  I would like to convert
> the Windows registry that already exists on my machine over to Wine's
> registry, but I don't see how that is going to be done since Wine will
> look at its own registry and NOT the reg files on my Windows partition.
>
> Do I need to drag the Windows reg files (and what are their names?) to
> the WIne partition on my disk?  Or run a converter program?  I suspect

Read the documentation about wine.conf.  Win95 stores its registry in two
files,  USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT.  If Wine can see these,  it will
automatically read them in upon loading and merge the information with its
own registry-database files,  which are stored in plain-text form.

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