Peter Daum wrote: > I had hoped to be able to use windows "reg.exe" to read/write windows registry files on a linux system and found, that this does not work) Of course it doesn't. Kernel handles registry, reg.exe is just a gui app that displays it. Wine itself can't read Windows binary registry files. Which means no windows program running on Wine will... Google for few Linux native programs that can do specific tasks, like resetting admin password.