If you can believe it, a program I've been using for several years saves its data using the Windows registry!
I need to recover this data from a backup drive.
Where does Windows Vista store registry information on the hard drive?
I've looked in C:\Windows\system32\config
but I've seem to hit a dead end here. Here's the contents of that directory:
256K May 31 2008 BCD-Template
37K May 31 2008 BCD-Template.LOG
0B Nov 2 2006 BCD-Template.LOG1
0B Nov 2 2006 BCD-Template.LOG2
30M Jun 30 15:04 COMPONENTS
1.0K Dec 21 2006 COMPONENTS.LOG
256K Jun 30 15:04 COMPONENTS.LOG1
0B Nov 2 2006 COMPONENTS.LOG2
8.0K Nov 2 2006 COMPONENTS.SAV
512K Jun 30 15:04 DEFAULT
1.0K Dec 21 2006 DEFAULT.LOG
256K Jun 30 15:04 DEFAULT.LOG1
0B Nov 2 2006 DEFAULT.LOG2
20K Nov 2 2006 DEFAULT.SAV
0B Nov 2 2006 Journal/
8.0K Jun 21 09:36 RegBack/
256K Jun 30 07:57 SAM
1.0K Dec 21 2006 SAM.LOG
256K Jun 30 07:57 SAM.LOG1
0B Nov 2 2006 SAM.LOG2
256K Jun 30 15:04 SECURITY
1.0K Dec 21 2006 SECURITY.LOG
256K Jun 30 15:05 SECURITY.LOG1
0B Nov 2 2006 SECURITY.LOG2
8.0K Nov 2 2006 SECURITY.SAV
39M Jun 30 15:04 SOFTWARE
1.0K Dec 21 2006 SOFTWARE.LOG
256K Jun 30 15:05 SOFTWARE.LOG1
0B Nov 2 2006 SOFTWARE.LOG2
9.7M Nov 2 2006 SOFTWARE.SAV
17M Jun 30 15:04 SYSTEM
1.0K Dec 21 2006 SYSTEM.LOG
256K Jun 30 15:04 SYSTEM.LOG1
0B Nov 2 2006 SYSTEM.LOG2
1.7M Nov 2 2006 SYSTEM.SAV
4.0K Sep 22 2008 TxR/
4.0K Jun 30 07:58 systemprofile/
I'm looking for HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/...