Location of registry hives in windows xp

[squall_leonhart69r]

I need some information on registry, i am running windows xp on computer. I know when we type regedit in run it display window with all the registry of system but what is the location of Registry Hives in windows xp and when it is created.

[Calvin K]

A hive is a logical group of keys, subkeys, and values in the registry that has a set of supporting files containing backups of its data. Depending on your Windows version, the Registry comprises four to six subtrees of keys called hives. whenever a a new user logs on a computer new hive is created for that user and User profile hives are located under the HKEY_USERS key.

[Lillebror]

Registry Ripper is a portable software program to automatically analyze Registry Hives. The saving of registry entries in .REG extension is done so that it can be easily exported into any other registry. The .REG extension also facilitates moving of registry entries from one system to another. It can also be used for creating selective backup entries of user’s registry data. The software is very safe to use because it does not allow the registry entries to be removed unless and until they are saved or copied into another file.

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[Wynn]

Windows 2000 keeps an alternate copy of the registry hives (.ALT) and attempts to switch to it when corruption is detected. A user's hive contains specific registry information pertaining to the user's application settings, desktop, environment, network connections, and printers. User profile hives are located under the HKEY_USERS key.Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 do not maintain a System.alt hive because NTLDR on those versions of Windows can process the System.log file to bring up to date a System hive that has become inconsistent during a shutdown or crash.