Vista - installing registry files in Vista

Hallo,
How can I instal registry files that cannot be imported from within the
registry editor,because it is no binary file?
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sol

solymar wrote:
Please explain better what you are trying to do. Help us to visualize your
situation by giving an illustrative example of the file you wish to import
into the registry and why.

Registry files have the format *.reg. You would normally double-click them
to merge them into the registry.

Malke
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Hallo Malke,
I got a key(msrt.key) by email, copied it into a computer file and tried
export it into registry by double- clicking. I got the following message:
"The specified file is not a registry script.You can only import binary
registry files from within the registry
editor".
Is there no other way? In XP there wasn't any problem.
Thanks for your answer.
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sol


"Malke" wrote:

solymar wrote:
But what is this key supposed to do? You might try renaming it to msrt.reg
to see what happens. Registry keys normally can be opened in Notepad and
read. Maybe you should do this and manually add the information to your
registry.

Other than that, because I don't really know why you are trying to do this
(and you left that piece of information out), I don't have any other ideas.

Malke
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Hallo Malke,
thanks for your answer. I bought a program that was installed on a 2nd
computer with XP. Now I have Vista. To activate the demo version I have to
instal the license
key again. They sent me the key- msrt.reg- It cannot be installed in Vista.
I have opened it in word, I can copy, but I cannot paste it in registry,
because I don't find the file in the explorer. Do you know a solution?
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sol


"solymar" wrote:

sol,

You cannot paste anything into the Registry the way you are trying to do, a
reg file has to be merged. It sounds like the XP reg file it quite different
than the Vista Registry structure thus it will not install. Copy/Paste the
contents in your reply and we can see if it's possible to fix it. However DO
NOT post the real "license key" part. Just change that to all 0's Zeros.


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All the best,
SG

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"solymar" <solymar@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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SG wrote:Vista's registry is vastly different than XP's. The
registry editor in XP is 5.0 where Vistas is 6.0. There are
protected ole/mime keys that Vista will not allow merger of
and the Legacy values to services cannot be altered except
by the SYSTEM account.

Lester

Lester,

Yep, well aware of the differences and thanks for the reply :>)
I still want to see the REG file as it's always a possibility for a
workaround.

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All the best,
SG

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"Lester Stiefel" <les7954@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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solymar wrote:
I do think you should post the contents of the key as SG asked. You don't
want to open the .reg file in Word. Right-click on it and open it in
Notepad. Again, don't post the actual program license key!

You may also be running into a permissions issue. I know I've merged a
registry key on Vista but I don't remember if I right-clicked on the .reg
file and chose "run as Administrator" or not. And the Vista machine isn't
on right now.

If you don't want to go further with this with us, you can always contact
the program's tech support people again and tell them you're having
difficulties. This must be something they would know how to deal with.

Malke
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Elephant Boy Computers
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Hallo Malke,
thanks for your answers. I will contact the sender's support service, but
I thought, there could be an easy solution
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sol


"Malke" wrote: