From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Dec 23 12: 4:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D48637B401 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:04:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C77543EF4 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:04:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([62.49.21.186]) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 18QYoT-0003Ox-0Z; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:04:33 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:04:08 +0000 To: clayton rollins Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: MS panel applets; was: BSD or Linux? References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message