I’m trying to find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro1\Class.
As to why; My daughter’s laptop recently updated and the update killed her touch pad and mouse. It’s a common problem with Toshiba Satellite-series laptops running Win10.
We found a reputable site (one we’ve used before)(WARNING: YouTube) that showed us how to fix it with a registry edit. The problem is that I confused “U’s” and “V’s” and completely killed both. They both work in Ubuntu, so I know it was my error and not hardware.
I throw in an Ubuntu “Live CD” (USB Stick) to re-edit the my screw-up but can’t find the file. All the Win10 stuff is visible, but my search doesn’t turn up anything. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong, it’s been awhile since I’ve used Ubuntu for anything.
TL,DR: I screwed up my daughters computer and need to find and edit file above to fix it. Using Ubuntu, where/how do I find it?
Thanks in advance - DESK
Why not just press F8 as your reboot and get windows back to a working configuration.
Windows keeps a backup of the registry each time you boot and its different.
So that last known config will only reverse your bad registry edit…
If you want to proceed with ubuntu registry edit, your confusion is caused by asking for files.
The registry files are there, but its not important for you to see them. You just use chntpw and you can registry edit over and over again
See
http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/Hacking%20the%20Windows%20Registry%20with%20chntpw.html
Yeah, in general, registry keys like you describe are not actual files. They’re stored as database entries in other files (specifics are described here). You need a tool like RegEdit (in Windows) or chntpw (in Ubuntu or other versions of Linux, as Isilder mentioned) to change them.
If you can log in to Windows without the mouse or touchpad, you should be able to run RegEdit and fix the mistake. It may be easier for you than using chntpw from Ubuntu. But either one should be able to do it.