Hi all, long story short, on our work machine running XP Pro we got a virus of some kind that locked us out of the admin account, prevented booting in safe mode etc, and all the usual fixes suggested in other helpful forums were for nil. Since the machine came from another business that was bought out a few years ago, there was no CD to boot from and no disks for the software already installed. The boss used his XP Home edition to reinstall windows (without disturbing the file system), but first we renamed the old windows folder to preserve the settings. Since all the program files and data are still available on the drive, we need to know if it's possible to transfer the old XP registry settings into the new XP folder since we can't reinstall all the programs. We have a second PC in the office that we can load the HD into if necessary. Any help would be appreciated!
