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- From: tad@wrq.com (Tad Marshall)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Registry woes
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 02:08:02 GMT
- Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA
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- References: <1993Jan6.183252.3612@berlioz.nsc.com>
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- In article <1993Jan6.183252.3612@berlioz.nsc.com> mcdan@berlioz.nsc.com (Eric McDaniel) writes:
- >I'm having a problem making changes to the registry on my machine.
- >I can log in as administrator and use regedit to make changes, but
- >when I reboot all the changes are gone. I've tried to change
- >permissions, add & delete keys, add and delete values -- nothing
- >seems to persist across reboots.
- >
- >This is on a Dell System 425E with 12MB RAM, running the October
- >Beta release. It is extremely slow running NT, but I see no
- >reason for the problems I'm having. I have no problems doing
- >all the above operations on my other machine, a Compaq 486/50L.
- >
- >Any suggestions?
-
- The MACHINE section of the registry is rebuilt on each reboot. It is supposed
- to contain current actually found stuff, rather than configuration info.
-
- Which sections are you editing?
-
- -- Tad
-