Back to my question : Last year I had a HD failure and had to translocate and safe everything. Unfortunately thiswas my C: HD , that's why I hadto rebuild a completely new system.

I was so dumb not to export mywindows rgistry into .REG files so everything from there is still stored in binary .DAT format.

I'd like to have my own display settings back (I mean the colour schemes), because they were quite a lot nd I had put a bit effort in them.

So now I'm wonderin whether there is any way to "transform" the binary files like USER.DAT into readable format like USER.REG .

Just to illustrate how such a colour scheme looks like, I'm posting the one I've found long ago with the program "BEOSWINBAR" ( I guess it's still downloadable somewhere and represents the taskbar known from the operating system BeOS) . This colour scheme represents the main (defauklt) colour scheme pf BeOS pretty good, I know that, because I've run BeOS for a little bit time myself.

You can copy this text and save it as "be4.REG" , that's the name the file has on my own HD (and obviously it came with the above mentioned program).

Quote
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Appearance\Schemes]
"Be #4"=hex:01,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,0c,00,00,00,0c,00,00,00,12,00,00,00,\
12,00,00,00,f5,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,bc,02,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,41,72,69,61,6c,00,64,13,47,01,d0,13,00,00,e8,0f,01,00,\
7c,7c,00,00,64,7c,63,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,0f,00,00,00,0f,00,00,00,fb,ff,ff,\
ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
4d,53,20,53,61,6e,73,20,53,65,72,69,66,00,e8,0f,01,00,7c,7c,00,00,64,7c,63,\
00,00,00,00,00,01,00,12,00,00,00,12,00,00,00,f7,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,bc,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,41,72,69,61,6c,00,73,\
20,53,65,72,69,66,00,e8,0f,01,00,7c,7c,00,00,64,7c,63,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,\
f5,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,4d,53,20,53,61,6e,73,20,53,65,72,69,66,00,e8,0f,01,00,7c,7c,00,00,\
64,7c,63,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,f5,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,90,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,41,72,69,61,6c,00,73,20,53,65,72,69,\
66,00,e8,0f,01,00,7c,7c,00,00,64,7c,63,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,f7,ff,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,90,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,47,65,6e,65,76,61,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,e8,e8,e8,00,31,\
63,9c,00,ff,d0,00,00,f0,f0,f0,00,d0,d0,d0,00,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,ce,ce,ce,00,ce,ce,ce,00,89,89,89,00,98,98,98,\
00,00,00,00,00,d0,d0,d0,00,b8,b8,b8,00,88,88,88,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
e8,e8,e8,00,d0,d0,d0,00,d0,d0,d0,00,00,00,00,00,ff,ff,e1,00



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