User Guide

NTRecover
Winternals Software LP Page 17
How can I make directory browsing faster?
Accessing client drives from Explorer in NT 4.0 can be slow because it
reads file contents to obtain icon data. This can be avoided by accessing
the drives from the file manager browser (Winfile) or an MS-DOS
command prompt window.
I make changes to files on the client machine, but after I reboot it the files are
the same as before. Why is this happening?
If you installed the trial version of NTRecover on the host before
installing the retail version, you must reboot the host before the retail
version will work correctly.
Why does it take so long to unmount?
Unfortunately, NTRecover has to obtain a handle to each mapped drive
before it can disconnect cleanly. This causes the host file system drivers
to access the root directories of the mapped client drives, which can lead
to delays.
How do I edit the registry on a machine I'm connected to?
This should be considered an expert-user procedure, to be
performed by experienced users only.
You can edit registry values on the remote machine by following the
following steps:
1. Ensure that your host and client machines are running the
same version of Windows NT, including identical Service
Packs.
2. Start REGEDT32 on the host.
3. Highlight the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.
4. Select the Registry|Load Hive... menu item.
5. Navigate to the registry hive you wish to edit on the remote
machine. It will be located in the \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG
directory as one of the following files:
♦= SAM - sam hive
♦= SOFTWARE - software hive