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   Dariusz Piatkowski to All   
   Re: Registry Explanation please...   
   09 Jan 12 02:13:02   
   
   83aa7b72ad7774faaf8f.newsdawg.com   
   From: "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
      
   Hi Allan!   
      
   On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:02:39 UTC, "Allan"  wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 09:27:34 UTC, "Lars Erdmann"    
   wrote:    
   >    
   > > I'd be careful with that. The OPEN32 registry (basically: the "Windows    
   > > registry fake" for Windows ports, that is 3)-6) below) is not archived per    
   > > default.   
   >    
   > Since eCS 2.0 GA, they are being archived per default.   
   >    
   > > I seem to remember the OPEN32 registry is physically contained in the   
   *.dat    
   > > files in the root directory. I think these files are hidden.   
   >    
   > The files are in \OS2\SYSTEM and they are not hidden   
      
      
   Yup, I see the following:   
      
   Directory of G:\os2\system   
      
    1-07-12  11:11p    774144           0  SYSTEM.DAT   
    1-07-12  11:11p    221184           0  USER.DAT   
           2 file(s)     995328 bytes used   
      
   Good place to start, take a back-up of these 2 and plug away on the clean-up    
   task.   
      
   Thanks guys!   
      
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