in reply to win32::TieRegistry script

Use any of the serialization modules, preferably one that outputs text. For example, I've done this with Data::Dumper (for non-huge registry keys). It recording the bless state was a pain but easy enough to remove. Then just assign the reconstituted hash in order to reconstruct the whole Registry tree.

Update: You can also use TieRegistry to load and modify the information in the hive before you restore it (or use regedt32 to do this).

- tye        

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Re^2: win32::TieRegistry script (serialize)
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jun 11, 2004 at 04:48 UTC

    All you really need is the (somewhat undocumented) /e flag on REGEDIT and it will dump the hive for you in native *.REG format ready for reimport. 

    C:\>regedit /e active.reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ActiveState

C:\>type active.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ActiveState]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ActiveState\ActivePerl]
"CurrentVersion"="635"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ActiveState\ActivePerl\635]
@="D:\\Perl\\"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ActiveState\ActivePerl\635\Help]
@="D:\\Perl\\html\\index.html"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ActiveState\PerlScript]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ActiveState\PerlScript\1.0]
"NoCaseCompare"=dword:00000001
"EnabledZones"=dword:00000010
"EnableEventLogMsgs"=dword:00000000


C:\>

    [download]

    cheers

    tachyon

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[d/l]
      thanks tachyon! that worked nicely.
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