Microsoft KB Archive/249231

= OFF2000: Error Importing Registry File to a CIW Transform =

Article ID: 249231

Article Last Modified on 1/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition

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This article was previously published under Q249231



SYMPTOMS
When you are using the Microsoft Office 2000 Custom Installation Wizard (CIW) and you try to import a registry file into a transform, the following error message may appear:

The specified file does not have the correct .REG file format. Skipping the rest of the file.



CAUSE
This error message may appear if you are trying to import a registry file that was exported from a computer running Microsoft Windows 2000.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, do the following:
 * 1) On a computer running Windows 2000, right-click the registry file and then click Edit on the shortcut menu. This opens the file in Notepad.


 * 1) Change the top line from "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00" to "REGEDIT4". This is case sensitive, so make sure you type REGEDIT4 in uppercase letters.
 * 2) On the File menu, click Save As.
 * 3) In the Save As dialog box, click the Encoding list and select ANSI.
 * 4) To ensure that you do not write over the original registry file, type a new name for your file. For example, type "my reg file.reg", including the quotation marks. Otherwise, your file name will have .txt appended to it during the save process.
 * 5) Click Save. You can now import your registry file into your transform.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

