Swapping Windows 11's and Windows NT 4.0's Registries

[@windestruct]

File missing errors on nt4 are probably related to the fact that Windows NT 4.0 installed in the Winnt folder now has the configuration that uses the Windows folder

[@Galaxy.Windows]

yes

[@15voltz]

Windows 11 when BSOD: Hey sorry your computer crashed :( Windows NT when BSOD: 374738373883838373XABE282848

[@MajinTails]

12:09 this color scheme is because it's using the fallback color scheme from Windows Vista - 11, mainly used or seen if you somehow disable DWM or get the Classic theme to appear, and it does control some basic colors used in the OS regardless. In every Windows version the system's colors are stored or determined in the Registry (there's one for the HKEY_CURRENT_USER and one for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE), hence the replacement.

[@ZuneTech2008]

4:38 because Windows 10/11's winver derives the build number from the "CurrentBuild" registry value in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" and that value at the time of releasing NT 4.0 was unused and was even a remnant of Windows NT 3.1.

[@Hijiri_MIRACHION]

So they deprecated it but then went back to using it? What did NT 4.0 do for it's winver? Strange...

[@ZuneTech2008]

@@Hijiri_MIRACHION NT 4.0 (perhaps 3.5x as well) all the way up to Windows 10 RTM (I think) derived the NT version number and build by calling the kernel APIs directly.

[@FusionCubeX]

This guy is literally the meaning of underrated, holy crap.

[@nexboygaming]

I knew Lynx for years.

[@Sofasit1806]

Real, i subbed him some time ago and after watching his videos i forget how unknown is he, or that he has only 1k subs

[@Wheagg]

I mean tbf there's not exactly a huge amount of people who even care about this stuff to begin with

[@TheWindowsHero]

Great video as always!

[@farmervillager1376]

1:19 ah yes, i love paying $100 for a windows where i need to click twice to access the actual context menu

[@xFluing]

You don't have to click twice. If anything the new context menu is better, with it bringing the most common items - rename, copy, paste etc to the top, as icons, condensed right next to the cursor. Much better UX. Too bad the OS sucks in every other way.

[@farmervillager1376]

@@xFluing thats when you freshly install windows 11. when you install shit like winrar, its not gonna be in that context menu so you litteraly have to click twice to get to what you ned to use

[@anonymousperson26223]

​@farmervillager1376 why are you clicking twice? just hover

[@F1exe]

Nice vid, you deserve more attention

[@jajoothecoolman]

5:47 Those aren't random! Aren't they kinda like the godmode thing everyone was crazy about a while back?

[@sullenscr]

off topic 6:04 :3c spotted!! :3

[@linuxtuxvolds5917]

The dial-up thing isn't Windows XP btw, it's Windows 7 aero style (which I actually miss a little bit :)

[@utaf]

Windows 10 with the windows 98 registry sounds so good

[@charliesretrocomputing]

Amazing video, very underrated channel! What video editor do you use?

[@Lynxmic]

Thanks! I edit with DaVinci Resolve

[@charliesretrocomputing]

@@Lynxmic Nice, thanks

[@LimeDashxd]

Hey nice video, but i have an idea. What if you increase the registry quota in nt4 and then import the registry?

[@justascreamingcat2964]

And import it as trustedinstaller

[@LimeDashxd]

@@justascreamingcat2964 win nt 4 does not have trustedinstaller:)

[@ZuneTech2008]

​@@justascreamingcat2964 TrustedInstaller wasn't a thing in NT 4.0. In fact it has never been a thing in Windows in general until Windows Vista.

[@justascreamingcat2964]

ZuneTech2008 ah, i wasn't aware. then simply only do it on windows 10 i suppose, though it might not affect things much

[@minecraft-FlyingDragon]

This is so good!

[@mevaser770]

great soundtrack!

[@rockpie.iso.tar.bz2]

fire song at the end 🔥🔥🔥

[@gravitycoil828]

at 5:33 the "IEToEdge" BHO doesn't come from Windows NT 4.0 and was there in Windows 11 from the start. with the registry swap it shouldn't have shown but due to how they programmed IE in windows 11 it shows

[@Lynxmic]

IEToEdge is an addon that always comes by default with IE11 on Windows 11, so it is completely unrelated to anything that may come over from NT 4 after the registry swap

[@aztohfatul]

What song did you use in here 8:19

[@Lynxmic]

Jeremy Blake - Heaven and Hell

[@kaboomgiraffe]

Happy music plays during my 4.0 dying

[@MainAccReborned]

Video idea: Swap Windows 10 registry with the windows 8 registry, And if either breaks you can try fixing it by applying the stock .reg file for both versions on windows RE. (recovey environment)

[@UltimatePerfection]

Swap Ubuntu's /etc directory with Arch's (/etc dir is the closest thing Linux has to the registry).

[@ivancomp_inside]

3:11 I used this interface trying to connect to the internet without the router or switch

[@lilguy554]

Hi! This was a great vid, but I was wondering if you could switch the Windows 8.1 and 11 registries?

[@JoshuaLodge2701]

i always find it really fun to watch these videos i'v got a video sugestion iv always wanted to know and that it what would happen if you tried to eneable every servie and feature in windows 10 or 11 always wanted to know what would happen would windows become slow or would it just work fine

[@procta2343]

I did see a program from windows 3.51 running on a windows 10 machine. I think it might have been mind sweeper or something like that. It proved that there was a little bit of the NT 3.1 coding was still there. Not sure if that would work on windows 11, as i read that they removed a fare bit of the windows 9x coding or something like that.

[@dizzydaisy909]

why on god's green earth does windows 11 have an option to export the registry as compatible with NT4

[@JSRphones]

The desktop functionality (and Windows UI as a whole) may be controlled by a different program now. I remember the new UI completely breaking down under certain conditions, causing it to revert to the Windows 10 UI.

[@newsuperbowserworld]

Windows literally still has the windows 95 classic theme.

[@procta2343]

I read that they did a bit of reworking, like removing windows 95 stuff from it, so that could explain the desktop functionality

[@gatisaleksejavs3824]

Whats going on to the combine windows 7 to windows 2008 r2 server registry keys?

[@everypizza]

Nice video! However, I think NCS music would work better with this type of video.

[@Lynxmic]

@everypizza thanks! now that's obviously your own opinion whether music should come from NCS, the YT audio library or any other source, but honestly I prefer the audio library, it works well enough tbh after all it's just background music, at this point you can even put your own music to play instead of the video's audio or just play the video on mute

[@AraiDigital]

Nah, NCS music is overused and generic, I'm tired of getting blasted with EDM or DnB lol

[@stevec00ps]

Was that SP6 that you restored the Win11 reg to? It didn't say that on boot up

[@Paddy_1245]

12:49 old sounds

[@BurkenProductions]

Dont use regedit fir tgat, just copy the registry files in safe mode or in linux rescue cd

[@StuffyXP]

nice video! :3 keep the awesome work going, just 45 subs more and you'll hit 1k! :D

[@lecongquyen4105]

Xp or older registry on 10 or later causes the build number to change to 1.511 sth

[@TorutheRedFox]

the build number is stored in the registry and any changes to it will persist until next startup when the kernel updates it with its info

[@FireFoxDestroyer]

Is the error message when swapping the registry supposed to be there

[@Lynxmic]

always happened from experience at "swapping registries" not too much to expect when importing an entire registry from a specific Windows version on another Windows version

[@Davide0033]

being fair, i'm pretty sure some keys are not being replaced because it would need SYSTEM or TrustedInstaller permissions to do so

[@luis-ranma]

I love Windows NT 4.0

[@procta2343]

great os if you are a learn about networking and file sharing, Taught me a bit did it not,

[@0xFF-d8z]

Nice vid

[@lucaswiese6]

ey dint i pitch this exact vidoe idea?

[@AllOSesOfficial]

This is some stuff I like

[@osstuff123]

Can you do this with Windows NT 3.x? Or it's impossible? Or 9x?

[@Lynxmic]

@ignacyk3203 9x was already done several times by other channels, you can look up on yt search NT 3.x would be complicated if not impossible due to Regedit there having no feature to import/export registries. In fact for this video I was intending to do NT 3.x at first, not NT 4

[@osstuff123]

@Lynxmic OK

[@Rakhshanfarr]

In the 11:29 is the nostalgic phone dialer but sadly it has removed on windows xp and upper are in Microsoft teams for calling and l am in stable windows 10 And it's good :) I don't seem this even like old videos 3 years ago Go down I have a secret at the first l think windows is not have server or anything then now l know all of them Windows 1 Windows 2 Windows 3 Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows NT 4.0 Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows xp Windows vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10 Windows 11

[@Kiki79250CoC]

The Phone Dialer application is still present in Windows 11 (C:\Windows\System32\dialer.exe)

[@10GTech]

Hi, what's the last music?

[@Lynxmic]

Riot - Coffee Stains

[@10GTech]

@@Lynxmic thanks!

[@dvsur]

The windows hero did the same aswell

[@x1cOfficial]

now do windows 7 and vista

[@Kartoffel12345]

I’m feeling sad for Windows NT. It was doing it best and then out of the nothing, a whole windows update regestry came in. Full of future windows generations stuff. It has sooo many stuffs to learn. From resolution hd up tp 4k, hdd to m2 ssd. And what is this chromium browser ? By tje way. I love this music in the middle section. Is this a special instrumental version from the „Fer‘rari - Atakan46“? I just found the song with rap in it.

[@Galaxy.Windows]

Windows 11 doesnt exist

[@a_nicegaming]

💀

[@fox198nt]

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