Load .reg file into a hive file when the user is not logged on

[ICTECH]

Hi All..

I've been given the task of coming up with a way to update existing user profiles on machiens when new software is pushed down from the Network (Novell). I've found code on how to load a hive, but nothing on how to load the .reg file. Is there any way to do this through VB.net code? I've worked out code for getting all the "Human" user profiles Out of the Registry. The Registry is the only part left. They also want to have the default user updated as well for when new users logon.

 

[MrAluminumSiding]

Odd. I've been working on parsing .reg files with pretty much the same goal in mind. What *I* cannot seem to figure out is how to load the external hive file into something usable. How did you manage to do this?

For the .reg I just opened it as a streamreader and parsed each entry. If it had "[" in it, I loaded that key (for each profile), and if it had "=" in it, I wrote that value. Just string manipulation, really.

The problem I had is that sometimes users seem to be magically absent from HKEY_USERS, so I wanted to load their NTUser.dat files one at a time and write to those.