regdiff - Man Page

Diff program for Windows registry files

Synopsis

regdiff [--help] [--backend=BACKEND] [--credentials=CREDENTIALS] [location]

Description

regdiff compares two Windows registry files key by key and value by value and generates a text file that contains the differences between the two files​.

A file generated by regdiff can later be applied to a registry file by the regpatch utility​.

regdiff and regpatch use the same file format as the regedit32​.exe utility from Windows​.

Options

--help

Show list of available options​.

--backend BACKEND

Name of backend to load​. Possible values are: creg, regf, dir and rpc​. The default is dir​.

This argument can be specified twice: once for the first registry file and once for the second​.

--credentials=CREDENTIALS

Credentials to use, if any​. Password should be separated from user name by a percent sign​.

This argument can be specified twice: once for the first registry file and once for the second​.

Version

This man page is correct for version 4​.0 of the Samba suite​.

See Also

gregedit, regshell, regpatch, regtree, samba, patch, diff

Author

This utility is part of the Samba​[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team​[2]​.

This manpage and regdiff were written by Jelmer Vernooij​.

Notes

  1. Samba
    http://www.samba.org/
  2. Samba Team
    http://www.samba.org/samba/team/

Info

10/01/2026 Samba 4.0 System Administration tools