I am trying to edit the default user NTUser.dat so that all new users will inherit the setting I am adding.  I need someone to explain to me how the hives work and how I load the default user hive for editing.  I have a working program that will write to the HKEY_USER.Default part of the registry, but it writes to my profile's NTUser.dat file instead of the Default User's NTUser.dat.  Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

MJ

This pretty much get's right down to it

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q146050

I glazed over the parts about loading profiles from a netword or whatever.

I did try what it said, and it does tell you how to load the hive. Trick is to use "regedt32" and not "regedit".

Anyhow, my NTUser.dat file wasn't where they said it would be (I guess the article wasn't written for Win2k). In Win2k it was at

Cocuments and SettingsDefault UserNTUser.dat

Anyhow. Enjoy.

Make that
C:Documents and SettingsDefault User