I'm going to get in trouble for replying this way, I just know it, but
it seems the best and easiest method to answer all points.
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 22:01:21 -0500, bill cameron
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
well steve i could not agree more about being educated.
of course if you had been following the thread that should be obvious
that was
my view point.
Unfortunately I think I was a lte-comer to this thread and probably
didn't see the messages that went before my first response.
now about your advice to just dig in, well their i totally disagree.
my statement was ment to say that she should not be makeing changes
with the
editor if her knowledge base on wwindows meant she did not know what
the
registry file was.
Agreed, but I believe one can "dig in" slowly, and with a small
proverbial shovel, not to harm anything along the way whilst digging
and sicovering, which is why I mentioned the export option as a way to
look at things without disturbing them.
well to do it properly would take a lot more info than you provide in
your
post.
like how to back up the registry.
how to use reg edit.
how to use word pad.
a certain amount of familiarity with jfw.
knowledge of binary and hidden files
knowledge of the registry itself, how it is divided into branches, and
what
those branches are.
how to restore a registry file that no longer works.
in addition how to boot in to dos.
All agreed. I thought that all those topics were outside the scope of
this list, but you're right, all those things are *definitely*
required. However, on the flip side of that, I've shown people how to
do what they need to do who definitely do not have all the knowledge
pieces we're discussing here, but they get the job done anyway
somehow.
second of all if a 8 year old kid said to you how does a t v work,
would you
give the kid a screw driver and say go take it apart.
Absolutely not. It would quickly become a non-functioning model, and
my point was to observe while still maintaining functionality.
a third point is that their many ways to change the registry without
ever using
a registry editor that are much safer.
I freely admit to not knowing any of these, except the one I
mentioned, where you export, change the exported file the way you
want, back things up, then import your changes. Of course this does
not take into account deletions. See, you were right, there's always
more!
no their is nothing mystical about the registry, nor is their all that
much
about computer concepts that are hard to learn.
Of course I'm down with that.
what makes learning how to use a computer is not that the information
is hard
to understand, no its the fact that their are about 1 billion things
to learn.
You sure got that right! They're not toasters, these things, but a
lot of people wish they worked like one, myself included! Sure would
make my life as a tekkie easier! :-)
now steve i want to challenge you to assisting me in writeing a
tutorial on
registry backup and useing the editor.
You got it! I suspect I'll be learning a lot as I go along, which is,
in my unhumble opinion, what it's all about.
if you do a step by step instructions on how to use reg edit, i shall
cover
the back up and restore of all the system files.
then we shall post it to other jfw users on this list.
so i am willing to do half if you are.
I am, and I shall.
send it to me by e mail if you decide to help.
Will do. Might take a few little whiles, but I'll have something to
you mid-week.
thanks for reading this, and hope to here from you privately about
instructions
on useing reg edit.
Thanks for reading my reply, and you'll be hearing from me immediately
after I post this message.
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