OFF2000: Error Importing Registry File to a CIW Transform

• Microsoft Office 2000

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.


2. 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.



3. On the File menu, click Save As.



4. In the Save As dialog box, click the Encoding list and select ANSI.



5. 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.



6. Click Save.


You can now import your registry file into your transform.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES

For more information about the Microsoft Office 2000 Custom Installation Wizard, please see the Microsoft Office Resource Kit at the following Microsoft World Wide Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/

Additional query words: OFF2000

Keywords : kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug