Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:04:08 +0000 From: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk> To: clayton rollins <crollins666@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS panel applets; was: BSD or Linux? Message-ID: <AqPEZOC4w2B%2BEwq6@caomhin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <F210SeEgQfajFwWG3qD0000fc3f@hotmail.com> References: <F210SeEgQfajFwWG3qD0000fc3f@hotmail.com>
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Someone, quite probably clayton rollins, once wrote:
>Second, since you brought it up, the control panel can be accessed by
>running the associated applets from the command line, though you still need
>the gui to actually make the changes.
And view the things of course :-) You can launch Word et al from the
command line within Windows but doing it from an old fashioned DOS
prompt won't get you very far. It doesn't truly count as the command
line if it needs a GUI also running to get any worthwhile results.
>I wouldn't be too surprised if there was some regedit tool for the CLI, but
>I usually just replace it if it comes to that...(if backups were made)
Regedit can apparently be made to do things from the command line. MS
have something about Win95 being able to do command line merges
(Q131352) and I did come across a page that suggests it'll work on all
versions.
DISCLAIMER: This is seriously untested by me and breaking your PC is
your own fault!
Okay, the theory is this. Create a text file that conforms to the
registry standard (simplest way would be to export from a working
registry so you can see what it looks like in text.) On the command
line you would use:
> regedit /s your_changes.reg
That should merge in the contents of your_changes.reg and you need never
see Explorer ever again.
Btw:
> regedit /e backupreg.txt
will export your registry to a nice plain text file for you to edit.
How well it works and in which versions shall be left to those who are
happy to risk breaking some Windows.
Kevin,
just always found the BSD way the most logical one
--
kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk
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