JSI Tip 0314 - Registry hives in the registry.

Jerold Schulman

November 13, 1997

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Permanent keys (those not created at boot) are identified in the hivelist subkey at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlhivelist

The one exceptions is HKEY_CURRENT_USER which is located at %SystemRoot%ProfilesUserName

The value entries identify the registry hives. All are type REG_SZ

Value Name

Default

D e s c r i p t i o n

REGISTRYMACHINEHARDWARE

  None

  The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEHardware key is recreated upon boot.

REGISTRYMACHINESAM

  DeviceHarddisk 0Partition1WINNTSystem32ConfigSAM

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESAM

REGISTRYMACHINESECURITY

  DeviceHarddisk 0Partition1WINNTSystem32ConfigSECURITY  

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESecurity

REGISTRYMACHINESOFTWARE

  DeviceHarddisk 0Partition1WINNTSystem32ConfigSoftware

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftware

REGISTRYMACHINESYSTEM

  DeviceHarddisk 0Partition1WINNTSystem32ConfigSystem

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystem

REGISTRYUSER.DEFAULT

  DeviceHarddisk 0Partition1WINNTSystem32ConfigDefault

  HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT

REGISTRYUSERSecurity ID (SID)

  DeviceHarddisk 0Partition1WINNTProfilesUsernametuser.dat  

  The current user(s) profile.If services are running under user accounts,their entries are also located here. 


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