Access Windows Registry from Ubuntu

Question

Is there any way I can access registry of my Windows 7 installation from Ubuntu. I believe that Registry Editor is a GUI to edit various configuration settings which are stored and distributed among multiple files. So I wonder if I can access those configuration from Ubuntu (or any other non-windows OS).

Answer 1

The chntpw tool has (very basic) registry editing capabilities.

Also try the regedit that comes with Wine – you might be able to load the Win7 registry hives into it. The files are:

• HKLM\SYSTEM → WINDOWS/system32/config/system
• HKLM\SOFTWARE → WINDOWS/system32/config/software
• HKCU for any user → <user profile>/NTUSER.DAT

Answer 2

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor has a registry editor which works under Linux

• There is also a registry editor and other registry utilities that works under linux/unix, and can be used for other things than password editing

Answer 3

Some of the basics of it (using ntfs and ntfsfix) can be found here.