While not as easy or graphical as windows, you can indeed edit parts of
the registry from dos.

there are three steps involved.

1)  export the item(s) to be edited.

for instance, if you want to view all items in your hkey_local_machine 's
run section, you can use from dos prompt

regedit /e filename.reg
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currectversion\run


This will export that item and everything within  into a file called
filename.reg.


Step 2 is to use dos's EDIT command to edit the .reg file (its plain text)

   edit filename.reg



Step 3 is to update the real registry with your modified one.

  regedit filename.reg

will import it back replacing what is there.

(Step 4 would be deleting the filename.reg   if you have no further use of
it)


Keep in mind this works Both in MSDOS mode and in a DOS window with
windows running.

Hope that helps some

Christy Duncan

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On 1/13/00 at 12:45 PM Mary Groves wrote:

>I was wondering if there is any possible way to edit the values of the
>Windows 95 registry keys from DOS -- instead of through Windows.  If there
>are any programs out to download that could aid me in doing so.  I have
ran
>into a problem -- I am unable to run any program in windows.  It asks for
>the location of a file that does not exist on my computer.  Because of
>which, I cannot run REGEDIT.EXE and therefore cannot edit out the faulty
>data in the system registry.  Any solutions?
>Mary Groves
>Nestucca High School
>503-392-3194
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