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authorJelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>2004-12-11 20:06:40 +0000
committerGerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>2007-10-10 13:07:20 -0500
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r4155: More destinction between hives and predefined keys
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@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
This is the registry library. The registry is basically a bunch of hives
-(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, etc) that can be loaded from
-different places.
+that can be loaded from different places.
The various registry backends provide support for loading/saving specific types
of hives:
@@ -28,3 +27,15 @@ registry:HKEY_CURRENT_USER = nt4:NTUSER.DAT
registry:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = ldb:tdb://registry.tdb
WERR_NOT_SUPPORTED will be returned for all hives that haven't been set.
+
+On Windows the various registry hives are loaded from:
+
+HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\System
+HKEY_CURRENT_USER: %Profile%\NTUser.dat
+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SAM: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\Sam
+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\Security
+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\Software
+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\System
+HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT: %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\Default
+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE: is autogenerated
+